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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2017, 7:21 AM CDT for Ness 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
- Jul 2, 2017, 7:21 AM CDT (12:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2017, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
239 WWUS83 KDDC 021221 SPSDDC Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Dodge City KS 721 AM CDT SUN JUL 2 2017 KSZ045-046-021315- Rush KS-Ness KS- 721 AM CDT SUN JUL 2 2017 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN NESS...NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE AND SOUTHWESTERN RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL 815 AM CDT... At 721 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5 miles southeast of Ness City, moving east at 25 mph. Nickel size hail will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Ness City, Bazine and Alexander. LAT...LON 3835 9951 3834 9988 3855 9991 3856 9955 TIME...MOT...LOC 1221Z 262DEG 23KT 3842 9982 $$ TATRO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 7:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 39 min |
| Jul 2, 7:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 63 min |
| Jul 2, 8:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 8:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 11:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 30 min |
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.