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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 10, 2021Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 10, 2021, 2:37 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 10, 2021, 2:37 AM CDT (07:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2021, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 7 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 2021-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2169 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 2021-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-247 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2362 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

827 
WWUS83 KDDC 100737
SPSDDC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
237 AM CDT Sat Jul 10 2021
 
KSZ064-077>080-100815-
Gray KS-Hodgeman KS-Kiowa KS-Edwards KS-Ford KS-
237 AM CDT Sat Jul 10 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FORD...NORTHWESTERN KIOWA...
SOUTHERN HODGEMAN...EAST CENTRAL GRAY AND SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS
COUNTIES UNTIL 315 AM CDT...

At 237 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Dodge City, moving southeast at 35 mph.

Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Dodge City, Bucklin, Spearville, Mullinville, Ford, Offerle, Ensign,
Bloom, Kingsdown, Howell, Wright, Bellefont, Windhorst and Ft. Dodge.

LAT...LON 3748 10005 3776 10033 3808 10002 3804 9961
      3769 9937 3747 9957
TIME...MOT...LOC 0737Z 295DEG 30KT 3778 9997 

$$

JJOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 10:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott38 min
Jul 9, 10:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott31 min
Jul 9, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton48 min
Jul 9, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Lane, Scott57 min
Jul 9, 11:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCNess27 min
Jul 9, 11:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton, Kearny36 min
Jul 9, 11:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney34 min
Jul 10, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny44 min
Jul 10, 12:07 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryDDCScott4 hr
Jul 10, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny52 min
Jul 10, 12:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman27 min
Jul 10, 1:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray66 min
Jul 10, 1:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens39 min
Jul 10, 1:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord64 min
Jul 10, 1:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney, Lane, Scott45 min
Jul 10, 2:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney31 min
Jul 10, 2:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney32 min
Jul 10, 3:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis, Lane, Ness, Rush, Scott, Trego45 min
Jul 10, 3:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell33 min
Jul 10, 3:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney37 min
Jul 10, 4:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade, Seward30 min
Jul 10, 4:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell41 min
Jul 10, 6:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade35 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.