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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2016, 7:43 AM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 24, 2016, 7:43 AM CDT (12:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2016, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 568 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Aug 24, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 409 AM CDT WED AUG 24 2016 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-250915- 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- 409 AM CDT WED AUG 24 2016 /309 AM MDT WED AUG 24 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. DISCUSSION...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHWARD AND STALL OUT ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS BY THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS LATER THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH HAIL FROM DIME TO QUARTER SIZE AND OUTFLOW WINDS FROM 50 TO 60 MPH INTO THE EVENING. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED HAIL RISK. LIMITED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK. ELEVATED FLOODING RISK. ELEVATED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. LIMITED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. DISCUSSION...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST INTO SUNDAY, THEN CHANCES DECREASE. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME MARGINALLY SEVERE ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF DODGE CITY. HAZARDS WEATHER RISK... THURSDAY... ELEVATED FLOODING RISK. LIMITED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK. FRIDAY... ELEVATED FLOODING RISK. ELEVATED LIGHTNING RISK. SATURDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. SUNDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED FIRE WEATHER RISK. MONDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED FIRE WEATHER RISK. TUESDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED FIRE WEATHER RISK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC/EHWO
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 59 min |
| Aug 24, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 58 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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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.