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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Sep 3, 2018, 1:21 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Sep 3, 2018, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2018, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 517 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted.
871 WWUS83 KDDC 031821 SPSDDC Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Dodge City KS 121 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2018 KSZ076-086-087-031900- Seward KS-Meade KS-Haskell KS- 121 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2018 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN SEWARD... NORTHWESTERN MEADE AND SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT... At 120 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm very near Plains, or 7 miles northeast of Kismet, moving north at 25 mph. Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. Localized flooding is possible. Locations impacted include... Kismet, Missler and Plains. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 3719 10048 3720 10070 3745 10088 3746 10026 TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 180DEG 20KT 3728 10059 $$ SUGDEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 56 min |
| Sep 2, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 62 min |
| Sep 2, 11:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 12 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 4 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Barber | 23 hr |
| Sep 3, 12:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Kiowa | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 12:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 1:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Meade, Seward | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 53 min |
| Sep 3, 4:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Ellis | 4 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 21 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 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.