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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 24, 2016Ellis County, Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Sep 24, 2016, 4:52 AM CDT for Ellis County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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 24, 2016, 4:52 AM CDT (09:52 UTC)
Expired: Sep 24, 2016, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Ellis County, KS, Rush County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-p

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -429 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 Sep 24, 2:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 2:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 24, 4:07 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 23, 11:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1113 PM CDT FRI SEP 23 2016

KSZ061-074-084-240530-
HAMILTON KS-MORTON KS-STANTON KS-
1113 PM CDT FRI SEP 23 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MORTON...HAMILTON
AND STANTON COUNTIES UNTIL 1230 AM CDT/1130 PM MDT/...

AT 1113 PM CDT/1013 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BRISTOL TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF TWO BUTTES TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
STONINGTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SYRACUSE...JOHNSON CITY...MANTER...COOLIDGE...
THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR AND MEDWAY.

LAT...LON 3826 10204 3826 10159 3745 10163 3719 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0413Z 226DEG 32KT 3817 10239 3766 10233 3721 10236

RBURG

Special weather statement, Sep 24, 4:52 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Sep 23, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	77 min
Sep 24, 9:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	61 min
Sep 24, 10:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	41 min
Sep 24, 10:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	67 min
Sep 24, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	63 min
Sep 24, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	60 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.