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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2020, 5:24 AM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 16, 2020, 5:24 AM CDT (10:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2020, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1427 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Aug 16, 3:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 434 AM CDT Sun Aug 16 2020 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-170945- 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- 434 AM CDT Sun Aug 16 2020 /334 AM MDT Sun Aug 16 2020/ This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...south central...southwest and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Day 1 Discussion ---------------- There is a chance of thunderstorms late this afternoon into early tonight, especially across far western Kansas. These storms could be severe with hail to half dollar size and winds to 60 mph. Day 1 Hazards ------------- * Hail: Limited risk * Thunderstorm wind damage: Limited risk * Lightning: Elevated risk .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. 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, Aug 16, 5:24 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Dodge City KS 524 AM CDT Sun Aug 16 2020 KSZ087-161115- Meade KS- 524 AM CDT Sun Aug 16 2020 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... At 523 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Missler, moving east at 20 mph. Half inch hail will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Meade and Missler. LAT...LON 3726 10050 3741 10053 3747 10022 3729 10021 TIME...MOT...LOC 1023Z 261DEG 21KT 3736 10043 FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 16, 6:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 6:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 7:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 7:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 8:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Pawnee, Pratt | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 9:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 40 min |
| Aug 16, 11:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 12:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 1:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 30 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.