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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 18, 2021Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2021, 3:16 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2021, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted.

131 
WWUS83 KDDC 182016
SPSDDC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
316 PM CDT Sun Jul 18 2021
 
KSZ066-079>081-089-090-182100-
Pratt KS-Stafford KS-Barber KS-Kiowa KS-Edwards KS-Comanche KS-
316 PM CDT Sun Jul 18 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR KIOWA...NORTHWESTERN BARBER...
COMANCHE...SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD...SOUTHEASTERN EDWARDS AND WESTERN
PRATT COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

At 316 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Byers to near Haviland to 8 miles
southeast of Mullinville. Movement was south at 30 mph.

Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Pratt, Coldwater, Greensburg, Haviland, Cullison, Coats, Sun City,
Wilmore, Byers, Hopewell, Wellsford, Croft, Lake Coldwater,
Belvidere, Buttermilk and Trousdale.

LAT...LON 3786 9878 3747 9872 3724 9894 3707 9941
      3756 9947 3770 9913 3793 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 343DEG 28KT 3783 9885 3761 9908 3750 9939 

$$

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, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	27 min
Jul 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton, Stevens	47 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.