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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2021, 3:03 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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 18, 2021, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2021, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 525 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
665 WWUS83 KDDC 182003 SPSDDC Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Dodge City KS 303 PM CDT Sun Jul 18 2021 KSZ075-076-085>087-182030- Seward KS-Meade KS-Stevens KS-Grant KS-Haskell KS- 303 PM CDT Sun Jul 18 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SEWARD...SOUTHEASTERN GRANT... SOUTHWESTERN MEADE...NORTHEASTERN STEVENS AND SOUTHWESTERN HASKELL COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT... At 303 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Cave to 8 miles northwest of Knowles. Movement was south at 10 mph. Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with these storms. Locations impacted include... Liberal, Kismet, Hayne and Cave. LAT...LON 3727 10112 3750 10112 3700 10024 3700 10086 TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 011DEG 11KT 3740 10107 3696 10031 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 11:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 11:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 43 min |
| Jul 18, 12:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 1:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 33 min |
| Jul 18, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 43 min |
| Jul 18, 2:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 23 min |
| Jul 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton, Stevens | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 36 min |
| Jul 18, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 3:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 45 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.