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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 29, 2016Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2016, 9:55 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2016, 9:55 PM MDT (03:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2016, 10:45 PM MDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 220 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 29, 7:14 PM MDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 7:14 PM MDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 4:36 AM MDT, 17 hours 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
536 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2016

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-301045-
TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-
PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-
PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER-
536 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2016 /436 AM MDT WED JUN 29 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE
THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
VERY ISOLATED LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS WILL BE
POSSIBLE ALONG WITH 60 MPH WIND GUSTS. LATER TONIGHT, ANOTHER
COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TO OUR NORTHWEST
AND MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST KANSAS REGION. THE MAIN THREATS WITH
THE OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH
AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY
NIGHT AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY BECOMES NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS
SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THERE WILL BE AN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL RISK,
PERHAPS LEADING TO SOME FLOODING IN SOME LOCATIONS, ESPECIALLY BY
EARLY IN THE WEEKEND AS SOME AREAS RECEIVE IN EXCESS OF THREE
INCHES. THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK WILL BE MARGINAL GIVEN THE
WEAKENING DEEP LAYER SHEAR.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE ACTIVATED GIVEN THE VERY
ISOLATED NATURE OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 9:55 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
955 PM MDT WED JUN 29 2016

KSZ061-300445-
HAMILTON KS-
955 PM MDT WED JUN 29 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY
UNTIL 1045 PM MDT...

AT 954 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF TRIBUNE TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST
OF TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY
RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COOLIDGE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH
FLOODED ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3823 10205 3826 10201 3826 10156 3782 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0354Z 305DEG 23KT 3838 10176 3782 10243

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 10:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	48 min
Jun 29, 10:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	42 min
Jun 29, 11:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny, Stanton	59 min
Jun 30, 12:01 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens	59 min
Jun 30, 12:34 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	56 min
Jun 30, 1:35 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	55 min
Jun 30, 2:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	DDC	Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Scott and 1 more	13 hr
Jun 30, 5:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.