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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 24, 2016Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2016, 9:21 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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, 9:21 PM MDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2016, 10:15 PM MDT
In force
54 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 03:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 2016-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2016-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 Aug 24, 5:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 5:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 3:09 AM MDT, 18 hours 12 minutes before
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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 24, 3:58 PM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
458 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2016

KSZ045-064-242300-
NESS KS-HODGEMAN KS-
458 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN NESS AND NORTHERN
HODGEMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM CDT...

AT 458 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF HORSETHIEF RESERVOIR...OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF
JETMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NESS CITY...BAZINE AND GRAY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3811 10021 3827 10022 3855 9991 3844 9961
      3815 9959
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 228DEG 22KT 3820 10015

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:15 PM MDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 6:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPawnee57 min
Aug 24, 8:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton, Stanton55 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.