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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 43 min |
| Sep 6, 7:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 52 min |
| Sep 6, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 38 min |
| Sep 6, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| Sep 6, 9:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 37 min |
| Sep 7, 7:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 9 hr |
| Sep 7, 7:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 3 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.