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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 2017Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2017, 2:09 AM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2017, 2:09 AM CDT (07:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2017, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 1734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Jun 23, 1:18 AM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 1:18 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 1:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 8:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
859 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2017

KSZ066-079>081-230300-
Pratt KS-Stafford KS-Kiowa KS-Edwards KS-
859 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR KIOWA...SOUTHERN STAFFORD...
EDWARDS AND PRATT COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

At 859 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles north of Mullinville, or 13 miles northwest of Greensburg,
moving east at 30 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Pratt, Kinsley, Stafford, Greensburg, Haviland, Macksville, Lewis,
Mullinville, Iuka, Preston, Sawyer, Cullison, Coats, Belpre, Byers,
Wellsford, Trousdale, Hopewell, Neola and Natrona.

LAT...LON 3747 9951 3797 9954 3797 9851 3775 9846
      3748 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 0159Z 270DEG 25KT 3771 9949

RBURG

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 9:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
912 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2017

KSZ045-063-064-077-078-230315-
Gray KS-Finney KS-Hodgeman KS-Ness KS-Ford KS-
912 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FORD...EASTERN FINNEY...
SOUTHEASTERN NESS...HODGEMAN...NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE AND NORTHEASTERN
GRAY COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM CDT...

At 912 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles west of HorseThief Reservoir, or 14 miles west of Jetmore,
moving east at 35 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Dodge City, Cimarron, Jetmore, Spearville, Ingalls, Ford, Hanston,
Fort Dodge, Wright, Howell, Kalvesta, Bellefont, Gray, Windhorst,
HorseThief Reservoir, Willroads Garden, Rolling Hill Estates, Dodge
City Regional Airport, Boot Hill Casino and Hodgeman State Lake.

LAT...LON 3785 10050 3826 10021 3829 9958 3766 9958
      3747 9990
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 284DEG 32KT 3803 10015

RBURG

Local storm report, Jun 22, 10:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 10:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:09 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
Jun 22, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	46 min
Jun 22, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane	43 min
Jun 22, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	44 min
Jun 22, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Scott	58 min
Jun 22, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa	47 min
Jun 22, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	59 min
Jun 22, 8:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush	65 min
Jun 22, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Hodgeman	30 min
Jun 22, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	52 min
Jun 22, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt	61 min
Jun 22, 9:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	63 min
Jun 22, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	21 min
Jun 22, 10:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	36 min
Jun 22, 11:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	42 min
Jun 23, 10:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	27 min
Jun 23, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	46 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.