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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:06 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Gray | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 4:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 4:32 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 4:58 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell, Meade | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 5:01 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Scott | 74 min |
| Jul 14, 5:06 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 5:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 5:53 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 6:00 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 6:24 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 7:13 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 7:26 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Gray | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 7:40 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 20 min |
Nearby
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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.