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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

November 17, 2016Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Nov 17, 2016, 7:47 PM CST for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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: Nov 17, 2016, 7:47 PM CST (01:47 UTC)
Expired: Nov 17, 2016, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 305 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 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 Nov 17, 5:06 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 17, 5:06 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 17, 2:23 PM CST, 5 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
223 PM CST THU NOV 17 2016

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-182030-
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-
223 PM CST THU NOV 17 2016 /123 PM MST THU NOV 17 2016/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

DAY 1 DISCUSSION
----------------
A RED FLAG WARNING CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON FOR AREAS SOUTH AND
SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY THROUGH 7 PM. STRONG WINDS COULD STILL
GUST TO NEAR 50 MPH IN PARTS OF THE RED FLAG WARNING. A STRONG
COLD FRONT WILL BLAST ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS THIS EVENING WITH A
FEW LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS, OR AN ISOLATED RUMBLE OF THUNDER FROM NEAR
SYRACUSE TO GARDEN CITY AND HAYS AND NORTH, THEN ENDING AROUND
MIDNIGHT. THE COLD FRONT WILL SHIFT THE WINDS TO NORTHWESTERLY AT
25 TO 35 MPH WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS.

DAY 1 HAZARDS
-------------
* NON-THUNDERSTORM WIND: ELEVATED RISK
* FIRE WEATHER: ELEVATED RISK

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

DAYS 2-7 DISCUSSION
-------------------
RAIN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY.

DAYS 2-7 HAZARDS
----------------
* FRIDAY
  - NON THUNDERSTORM WIND: ELEVATED RISK
  - FIRE WEATHER: ELEVATED RISK

* SATURDAY
  - FIRE WEATHER: LIMITED RISK

* SUNDAY
  NO HAZARDS.

* MONDAY
  - LIGHTNING: LIMITED RISK

* TUESDAY
  - LIGHTNING: ELEVATED RISK

* WEDNESDAY
  NO HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 17, 5:37 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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