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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 14, 2016Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2016, 4:12 AM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 14, 2016, 4:12 AM MDT (10:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2016, 4:45 AM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2016-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1278 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2016-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

174 
WWUS83 KDDC 141012
SPSDDC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
512 AM CDT THU JUL 14 2016
 
KSZ061-062-141045-
KEARNY KS-HAMILTON KS-
512 AM CDT THU JUL 14 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN HAMILTON AND NORTHERN
KEARNY COUNTIES UNTIL 545 AM CDT/445 AM MDT/...

AT 511 AM CDT/411 AM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF TRIBUNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NORTH OF LAKIN INTO
NORTHERN KEARNY COUNTY.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DEERFIELD.

LAT...LON 3826 10204 3826 10112 3798 10111 3818 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 1011Z 243DEG 21KT 3824 10180 

$$

KRUSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 4:06 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Gray54 min
Jul 14, 4:18 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray29 min
Jul 14, 4:32 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford58 min
Jul 14, 4:58 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell, Meade62 min
Jul 14, 5:01 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Scott74 min
Jul 14, 5:06 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord, Kiowa54 min
Jul 14, 5:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche37 min
Jul 14, 5:53 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray67 min
Jul 14, 6:00 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber, Pratt60 min
Jul 14, 6:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Meade36 min
Jul 14, 7:13 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber47 min
Jul 14, 7:26 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord, Gray64 min
Jul 14, 7:40 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPratt20 min

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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.