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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 7:13 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
- Aug 4, 2016, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2016, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
513 WWUS83 KDDC 050013 SPSDDC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 713 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 KSZ030-050115- TREGO KS- 713 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT... AT 712 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF TREGO CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WAKEENEY...OGALLAH...COLLYER...CEDAR BLUFF AND TREGO CENTER. LAT...LON 3884 10014 3904 10013 3903 9962 3871 9973 TIME...MOT...LOC 0012Z 284DEG 12KT 3891 10002 $$ JJOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 66 min |
| Aug 4, 7:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Trego | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 55 min |
| Aug 4, 8:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Gray | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 61 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.