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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 2017Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 15, 2017, 8:21 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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 15, 2017, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2017, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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 137 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2017-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 923 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2017-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
923 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

As transmitted.

079 
WWUS83 KDDC 160121
SPSDDC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
821 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017
 
KSZ062-074-075-160215-
Stanton KS-Kearny KS-Grant KS-
821 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON...KEARNY...
NORTHWESTERN FINNEY...NORTHWESTERN GRANT AND NORTHEASTERN STANTON
COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT...

At 821 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles northwest of Ulysses, moving northeast at 45 mph.

Nickel size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Lakin, Deerfield and Kendall. 

A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
southwestern Kansas.

LAT...LON 3774 10159 3774 10153 3782 10153 3783 10154
      3826 10154 3826 10110 3798 10110 3761 10139
      3770 10159
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 208DEG 41KT 3773 10145 

$$

HOVORKA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton53 min
May 15, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens49 min
May 15, 7:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens53 min
May 15, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott44 min
May 15, 8:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell, Seward48 min
May 15, 8:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade61 min
May 15, 8:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Morton, Stevens58 min
May 15, 8:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Gray61 min
May 15, 9:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord50 min
May 15, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens53 min
May 15, 9:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCClark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman and 1 more54 min
May 15, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward47 min
May 15, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward46 min
May 15, 10:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 2 more53 min
May 15, 11:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell42 min
May 15, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Meade35 min
May 15, 11:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord67 min
May 16, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward, Stevens63 min
May 16, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray, Meade56 min
May 16, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray53 min
May 16, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Seward49 min
May 16, 3:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade24 min
May 16, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman34 min
May 16, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade13 min
May 16, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness51 min
May 16, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade50 min
May 16, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney54 min
May 16, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Meade50 min
May 16, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego57 min
May 16, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa25 min
May 16, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis51 min
May 16, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade37 min
May 16, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade50 min
May 16, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness50 min
May 16, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa36 min
May 16, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Lane, Scott52 min
May 16, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego46 min
May 16, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush52 min
May 16, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade36 min
May 16, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward49 min
May 16, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford22 min
May 16, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego40 min
May 16, 5:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade6 hr
May 16, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade34 min
May 16, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray, Haskell, Meade, Seward30 min
May 16, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush33 min
May 16, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Kiowa35 min
May 16, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray, Haskell29 min
May 16, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa46 min
May 16, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray, Lane, Scott21 min

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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.