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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 5, 2021, 4:54 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2021, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2021, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:32 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 Nw Dodge City, KS | |
| May 5, 5:33 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 2 Nnw Dodge City, KS | REPORT FROM MPING: DIME (0.75 IN.). |
| May 5, 5:35 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 N Dodge City, KS | SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF PING PONG TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL. |
| May 5, 5:39 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 62 | 3 Ene Dodge City, KS | ASOS STATION KDDC DODGE CITY REGIONAL AIRPORT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
019 WWUS83 KDDC 052154 SPSDDC Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Dodge City KS 454 PM CDT Wed May 5 2021 KSZ063-064-077-078-052245- Gray KS-Finney KS-Hodgeman KS-Ford KS- 454 PM CDT Wed May 5 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN FORD...EASTERN FINNEY...SOUTHWESTERN HODGEMAN AND EASTERN GRAY COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM CDT... At 454 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Kalvesta, moving southeast at 30 mph. Penny size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Dodge City, Cimarron, Ensign, Howell, Wright, The Haggard Elev and Ft. Dodge. LAT...LON 3797 10051 3806 10024 3780 9972 3758 10032 TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 311DEG 26KT 3796 10029 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Scott | 39 min |
| May 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Lane | 43 min |
| May 5, 4:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 51 min |
| May 5, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 min |
| May 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 42 min |
| May 5, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 44 min |
| May 5, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 36 min |
| May 5, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 50 min |
| May 5, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, Meade | 49 min |
| May 5, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade, Seward | 45 min |
| May 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 26 min |
| May 5, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.