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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 2, 2016Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Oct 2, 2016, 5:52 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 8 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
Oct 2, 2016, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
8 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Oct 1, 6:44 PM CDT, 23 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 6:44 PM CDT, 23 hours 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 2, 8:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa6 hr
Oct 2, 5:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell35 min
Oct 2, 6:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell55 min
Oct 2, 6:43 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryDDCGrant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.