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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 7, 2020, 7:21 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 7, 2020, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2020, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted.
216 WWUS83 KDDC 080021 SPSDDC Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Dodge City KS 721 PM CDT Thu May 7 2020 KSZ064-078-080045- Hodgeman KS-Ford KS- 721 PM CDT Thu May 7 2020 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN FORD AND SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT... At 721 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles southwest of Jetmore, moving east at 25 mph. Nickel size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Jetmore and Spearville. LAT...LON 3793 10014 3809 10009 3810 9963 3774 9969 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 276DEG 22KT 3800 9999 $$ JJOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 30 min |
| May 7, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 33 min |
| May 7, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 34 min |
| May 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 44 min |
| May 7, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 23 min |
| May 7, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 39 min |
| May 7, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards | 36 min |
| May 7, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 38 min |
| May 7, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 52 min |
| May 7, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 41 min |
| May 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 37 min |
| May 7, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 36 min |
| May 7, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 19 min |
| May 7, 9:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche | 24 min |
| May 7, 10:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 44 min |
| May 7, 11:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 38 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.