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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 11, 2017Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 11, 2017, 1:08 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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: May 11, 2017, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2017, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 May 11, 12:57 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 12:57 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 4:13 AM CDT, 8 hours 55 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
413 AM CDT Thu May 11 2017

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-121100-
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-
413 AM CDT Thu May 11 2017 /313 AM MDT Thu May 11 2017/

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...south
central...southwest and west central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Day 1 Discussion
----------------

Some localized ponding of water could linger across parts of
central and west central Kansas this morning as runoff from
overnight storms continues to subside. Showers and thunderstorms
are expected again today as an upper low moves over the region.

Day 1 Hazards
-------------
* Flooding: Limited risk
* Lightning: Limited risk

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Days 2-7 Discussion
-------------------

After a few quiet days, chances for thunderstorms will increase
again early next week. Details regarding the location and
intensity of any severe storms are still unclear at this time.

Days 2-7 Hazards
----------------
* Friday
  No hazards.

* Saturday
  No hazards.

* Sunday
  No hazards.

* Monday
  - Lightning: Limited risk

* Tuesday
  - Lightning: Limited risk

* Wednesday
  - Lightning: Limited risk

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight.

&&

For more details visit our webpage http://weather.gov/ddc/ehwo

Gerard

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 11, 1:08 PM 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
May 10, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	54 min
May 10, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa	25 min
May 10, 8:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	26 min
May 10, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Scott	63 min
May 10, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	37 min
May 10, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	65 min
May 10, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	62 min
May 10, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	40 min
May 10, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Ness	29 min
May 10, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	44 min
May 10, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	41 min
May 10, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	50 min
May 10, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	45 min
May 10, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	49 min
May 10, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	28 min
May 10, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward, Stevens	57 min
May 10, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	45 min
May 11, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	50 min
May 11, 12:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	41 min
May 11, 12:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray, Meade	52 min
May 11, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	39 min
May 11, 3:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	53 min
May 11, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	51 min
May 11, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	52 min
May 11, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	24 min
May 11, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	67 min
May 11, 4:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	24 hr

Nearby

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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.