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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 9, 2021, 12:13 AM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 9, 2021, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2021, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 755 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
451 WWUS83 KDDC 090513 SPSDDC Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Dodge City KS 1213 AM CDT Sun May 9 2021 KSZ066-090600- Stafford KS- 1213 AM CDT Sun May 9 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY UNTIL 100 AM CDT... At 1212 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm very near Seward, moving east at 35 mph. Nickel size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Seward. LAT...LON 3817 9886 3826 9885 3826 9847 3807 9847 TIME...MOT...LOC 0512Z 266DEG 31KT 3820 9879 $$ RBURG
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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.