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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 14, 20175 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2017, 12:21 AM CDT for 5 counties in 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
Aug 14, 2017, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2017, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 2017-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 711 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2017-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
711 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1383 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

As transmitted.

192 
WWUS83 KDDC 140521
SPSDDC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1221 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2017
 
KSZ043-044-062-063-075>077-140615-
Gray KS-Finney KS-Kearny KS-Lane KS-Grant KS-Scott KS-Haskell KS-
1221 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN KEARNY...FINNEY...
GRANT...SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT...SOUTHEASTERN LANE...GRAY AND HASKELL
COUNTIES UNTIL 115 AM CDT...

At 1221 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 3 miles west of Dighton to 5 miles northeast of
Holcomb to 9 miles southeast of Kendall. Movement was southeast at 20
mph.

Half inch hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Garden City, Ulysses, Cimarron, Lakin, Sublette, Dighton, Montezuma,
Holcomb, Deerfield, Pierceville, Ingalls, Copeland, Charleston,
Plymell, Kalvesta, Hickok, Ryus, Tice, Garden City Regional Airport
and The Lowe Elevator.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3810 10097 3864 10040 3825 10026 3792 10024
      3751 10039 3745 10146 3786 10151
TIME...MOT...LOC 0521Z 326DEG 16KT 3846 10053 3804 10092 3782 10144 

$$

RBURG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 10:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKearny, Scott62 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.