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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 2020Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 15, 2020, 2:49 AM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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 15, 2020, 2:49 AM CDT (07:49 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2020, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 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.

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: 730 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1402 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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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 15, 2:23 AM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 2:23 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 2:39 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 15, 1:59 AM CDT, 50 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
159 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020

KSZ078>080-150730-
Kiowa KS-Edwards KS-Ford KS-
159 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL FORD...NORTHWESTERN KIOWA
AND SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTIES UNTIL 230 AM CDT...

At 159 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Ft. Dodge, moving northeast at 15 mph.

Penny size hail will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Dodge City, Spearville, Ford, Offerle, Bellefont, Wright, Windhorst
and Ft. Dodge.

LAT...LON 3753 9975 3764 10011 3791 9996 3791 9949
      3778 9932
TIME...MOT...LOC 0659Z 215DEG 11KT 3771 9989

JJOHNSON

Special weather statement, May 15, 2:03 AM CDT, 46 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
203 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020

KSZ062-063-075>077-150730-
Gray KS-Finney KS-Kearny KS-Grant KS-Haskell KS-
203 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN KEARNY...SOUTHERN
FINNEY...NORTHEASTERN GRANT...NORTHWESTERN GRAY AND NORTHWESTERN
HASKELL COUNTIES UNTIL 230 AM CDT...

At 203 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles west of Plymell, moving northeast at 15 mph.

Penny size hail will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Garden City, Holcomb, Pierceville, Charleston and Plymell.

LAT...LON 3758 10091 3774 10124 3802 10109 3803 10037
TIME...MOT...LOC 0703Z 215DEG 11KT 3776 10103

JJOHNSON

Special weather statement, May 15, 2:10 AM CDT, 39 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
210 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020

KSZ080-081-089-090-150745-
Pratt KS-Barber KS-Kiowa KS-Comanche KS-
210 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA...NORTHWESTERN
BARBER...NORTHEASTERN COMANCHE AND SOUTHWESTERN PRATT COUNTIES UNTIL
245 AM CDT...

At 210 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southwest of Sun City, moving northeast at 20 mph.

Penny size hail will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Lake City, Sun City, Croft and Belvidere.

LAT...LON 3717 9898 3727 9917 3761 9916 3734 9858
TIME...MOT...LOC 0710Z 214DEG 19KT 3729 9903

JJOHNSON

Special weather statement, May 15, 2:38 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 15, 2:49 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 15, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	31 min
May 15, 2:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney	27 min
May 15, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	35 min
May 15, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	24 min
May 15, 2:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	37 min
May 15, 3:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	30 min
May 15, 3:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee	25 min
May 15, 3:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	33 min
May 15, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman, Pawnee	32 min
May 15, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards	31 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2020 Every special weather statement in 2020

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.