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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 5, 2019Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 5, 2019, 6:48 AM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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: May 5, 2019, 6:48 AM CDT (11:48 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2019, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Clark County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 May 5, 5:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 5:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 3:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 5, 6:48 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
May 4, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	54 min
May 5, 8:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	53 min
May 5, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	57 min
May 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	47 min
May 5, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Meade	57 min
May 5, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	50 min
May 5, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Gray	46 min
May 5, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	55 min
May 5, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	61 min
May 5, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	57 min
May 5, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	43 min
May 5, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Ford	23 min
May 5, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	44 min
May 5, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa	33 min
May 5, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	37 min
May 5, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	44 min
May 5, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	41 min
May 5, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	53 min
May 5, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Meade	36 min
May 5, 6:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Meade	6 hr
May 5, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	57 min
May 5, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Meade	32 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.