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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 18, 2021Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2021, 2:39 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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, 2:39 PM MDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2021, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 12:00Z on 2021-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 525 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2021-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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.

751 
WWUS83 KDDC 182039
SPSDDC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
339 PM CDT Sun Jul 18 2021
 
KSZ061-062-074-182115-
Stanton KS-Kearny KS-Hamilton KS-
339 PM CDT Sun Jul 18 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HAMILTON...SOUTHWESTERN KEARNY
AND NORTHEASTERN STANTON COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT/315 PM MDT/...

At 339 PM CDT/239 PM MDT/, Doppler radar was tracking strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from 12 miles northeast of
Hartman to 11 miles south of Kendall. Movement was south at 20 mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Syracuse, Coolidge and Kendall. 

LAT...LON 3826 10204 3826 10195 3790 10143 3774 10152
      3774 10153 3772 10153 3758 10160 3777 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 020DEG 19KT 3822 10203 3777 10157 

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 10:44 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis31 min
Jul 18, 10:49 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCTrego26 min
Jul 18, 10:52 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis38 min
Jul 18, 11:17 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush43 min
Jul 18, 11:28 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCTrego32 min
Jul 18, 11:51 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess, Pawnee, Rush39 min
Jul 18, 12:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPawnee33 min
Jul 18, 12:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford50 min
Jul 18, 1:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant24 min
Jul 18, 1:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford45 min
Jul 18, 1:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Stevens43 min
Jul 18, 1:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord35 min
Jul 18, 1:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Stanton23 min
Jul 18, 2:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward27 min
Jul 18, 2:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton, Stevens47 min
Jul 18, 2:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCComanche, Kiowa44 min
Jul 18, 2:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStevens39 min
Jul 18, 2:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber, Comanche52 min
Jul 18, 3:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche31 min
Jul 18, 3:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStanton45 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.