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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 6, 2016Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Sep 6, 2016, 8:21 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
Sep 6, 2016, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 2016-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1146 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2016-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

As transmitted.

436 
WWUS83 KDDC 070121
SPSDDC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
821 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 2016
 
KSZ074-075-084-085-070200-
GRANT KS-STEVENS KS-MORTON KS-STANTON KS-
821 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN MORTON...
SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON...EASTERN STANTON...NORTHWESTERN STEVENS AND
WESTERN GRANT COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 819 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BIG BOW TO 5 MILES NORTH
OF ROLLA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH.

HAIL TO ONE HALF INCH IS POSSIBLE.

WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE LIKELY.

FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ULYSSES...RICHFIELD...BIG BOW AND THE MILEPOST ELEVATOR. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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

&&

LAT...LON 3720 10181 3774 10164 3773 10123 3718 10136
TIME...MOT...LOC 0119Z 272DEG 14KT 3767 10150 3720 10160 

$$

TURNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 7:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton43 min
Sep 6, 7:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton52 min
Sep 6, 8:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens38 min
Sep 6, 8:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott47 min
Sep 6, 9:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell, Seward60 min
Sep 6, 9:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott37 min
Sep 7, 7:34 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDDCEllis9 hr
Sep 7, 7:50 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDDCEllis3 hr

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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.