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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 29, 2016Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 29, 2016, 3:44 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 2016, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 54 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.

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Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 29, 1:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 1:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 29, 5:11 AM CDT, 10 hours 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
511 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2016

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-301000-
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-
511 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2016 /411 AM MDT MON AUG 29 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY
AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THESE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH.

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...

  LIMITED FLOODING RISK.
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

DISCUSSION...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY
FROM TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SOME STORMS LATE TUESDAY INTO EARLY
WEDNESDAY WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL
ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS. THE HEAVY RAINFALL EARLY MAY RESULT IN
LOCALIZED FLOODING.

HAZARDS WEATHER RISK...

  TUESDAY...
  LIMITED FLOODING RISK.
  ELEVATED LIGHTNING RISK.

  WEDNESDAY...
  LIMITED FLOODING RISK.
  ELEVATED LIGHTNING RISK.

  THURSDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.

  FRIDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.

  SATURDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.

  SUNDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

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FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC/EHWO

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 29, 3:44 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
344 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2016

KSZ078-080-088-089-292130-
FORD KS-KIOWA KS-CLARK KS-COMANCHE KS-
344 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN COMANCHE...
SOUTHEASTERN FORD...NORTHEASTERN CLARK AND SOUTHWESTERN KIOWA
COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM CDT...

AT 342 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTH OF MULLINVILLE...OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBURG...
MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

EXCESSIVELY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GREENSBURG...MULLINVILLE AND THE JOY ELEVATOR.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3729 9938 3736 9963 3768 9957 3761 9923
TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 194DEG 20KT 3748 9946

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 7:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Barber	3 hr
Aug 29, 6:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DDC	Stafford	3 hr
Aug 29, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray, Meade	59 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.