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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 11, 2020Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2020, 5:44 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2020, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2020, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Meade County, KS

The radar

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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 Jun 11, 5:37 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 5:37 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 3:23 AM CDT, 14 hours 21 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
323 AM CDT Thu Jun 11 2020

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-120830-
Trego-Ellis-Scott-Lane-Ness-Rush-Hamilton-Kearny-Finney-Hodgeman-
Pawnee-Stafford-Stanton-Grant-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa-
Pratt-Morton-Stevens-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber-
323 AM CDT Thu Jun 11 2020 /223 AM MDT Thu Jun 11 2020/

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...south
central...southwest and west central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight.

&&

For more details visit our webpage
https://weather.gov/crh/ghwo?sid=ddc

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
429 PM CDT Thu Jun 11 2020

KSZ076-077-086-087-112215-
Gray KS-Seward KS-Meade KS-Haskell KS-
429 PM CDT Thu Jun 11 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN SEWARD...
NORTHWESTERN MEADE...SOUTHWESTERN GRAY AND SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL
COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

At 429 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southeast of Satanta, moving east at 30 mph.

Penny size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Copeland, Tice and Plains.

LAT...LON 3729 10097 3742 10101 3756 10054 3722 10049
TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 266DEG 28KT 3735 10089

TATRO
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 5:09 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 5:44 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 4:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell46 min
Jun 11, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward43 min
Jun 11, 5:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray36 min
Jun 11, 5:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCClark52 min
Jun 11, 5:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord40 min
Jun 11, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa21 min
Jun 11, 6:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade44 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2020Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.