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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 28, 2018Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2018, 10:21 PM CDT for Haskell 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 28, 2018, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2018, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 1797 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.8

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The text

As transmitted.

179 
WWUS83 KDDC 290321
SPSDDC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1021 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 2018
 
KSZ075-076-085-086-290415-
Seward KS-Stevens KS-Grant KS-Haskell KS-
1021 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN SEWARD...SOUTHEASTERN
GRANT...NORTHEASTERN STEVENS...SOUTHWESTERN GRAY AND SOUTHERN HASKELL
COUNTIES UNTIL 1115 PM CDT...

At 1021 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hickok, moving east at 25 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Sublette, Satanta, Tice, Ryus, Cave and Hickok. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 3711 10100 3751 10127 3761 10123 3760 10065
      3730 10071
TIME...MOT...LOC 0321Z 284DEG 22KT 3754 10119 

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	58 min
Jul 28, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	49 min
Jul 28, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	46 min
Jul 28, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Stanton, Stevens	54 min
Jul 28, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	67 min
Jul 28, 11:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	57 min
Jul 28, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	54 min
Jul 28, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens	63 min
Jul 29, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Kearny	67 min
Jul 29, 12:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	58 min
Jul 29, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	56 min
Jul 29, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	51 min
Jul 29, 12:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DDC	Finney	3 hr
Jul 29, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	37 min
Jul 29, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	40 min
Jul 29, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness, Scott	55 min
Jul 29, 1:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DDC	Pratt	3 hr
Jul 29, 3:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pratt	3 hr
Jul 29, 5:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Pratt	6 hr
Jul 29, 6:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	6 hr

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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.