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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 19, 2020Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2020, 9:13 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 19, 2020, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2020, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Meade County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2020-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2354 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2020-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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280 
WWUS83 KDDC 200213
SPSDDC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
913 PM CDT Sun Jul 19 2020
 
KSZ086-087-200245-
Seward KS-Meade KS-
913 PM CDT Sun Jul 19 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD AND SOUTHERN
MEADE COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CDT...

At 912 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northwest of Forgan, or 12 miles northwest of Beaver, moving
northeast at 10 mph.

Penny size hail and winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Kismet, Meade State Park and Hayne. 

LAT...LON 3726 10079 3720 10011 3700 10038 3700 10085
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 216DEG 10KT 3697 10064 

$$

JJOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 7:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade38 min
Jul 19, 7:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade44 min
Jul 19, 8:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade37 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.