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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 7, 2024Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2024, 9:47 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Aug 7, 2024, 9:47 PM MDT (03:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2024, 10:15 PM MDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 50

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1647 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 7, 4:02 PM MDT, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 4:02 PM MDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 2:11 AM MDT, 19 hours 36 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
311 AM CDT Wed Aug 7 2024

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-080815-
Trego-Ellis-Scott-Lane-Ness-Rush-Hamilton-Kearny-Finney-Hodgeman-
Pawnee-Stafford-Stanton-Grant-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa-
Pratt-Morton-Stevens-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber-
311 AM CDT Wed Aug 7 2024 /211 AM MDT Wed Aug 7 2024/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas,
south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

A SPC marginal risk for severe weather is in place for the
northern zones tonight into tomorrow. Precipitation is expected to
begin around 10 PM and lasting through 6 AM Thursday, but the
majority of the severe threat is contained with the first couple
hours. The primary threat is marginally severe hail and wind
although the threat remains conditional in both strength and
location.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 9:47 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1047 PM CDT Wed Aug 7 2024

KSZ061-062-080415-
Kearny KS-Hamilton KS-
1047 PM CDT Wed Aug 7 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHERN HAMILTON AND NORTHERN
KEARNY COUNTIES THROUGH 1115 PM CDT/1015 PM MDT/...

At 1046 PM CDT/946 PM MDT/, Doppler radar was tracking a strong
thunderstorm 16 miles south of Tribune, moving east at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northern Hamilton
and northern Kearny Counties.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3826 10203 3826 10112 3797 10110 3799 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 0346Z 259DEG 23KT 3824 10174

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

JJOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 10:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	30 min
Aug 7, 10:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	46 min
Aug 7, 11:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Lane	56 min
Aug 8, 1:19 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	26 min
Aug 8, 1:47 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	43 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.