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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2025, 11:28 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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 19, 2025, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Hail
- 0.50 in
- Wind
- 50
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 884 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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.
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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 11:25 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 11:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Scott | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 11:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Trego | 51 min |
| Jul 20, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 8:18 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Kiowa and 4 more | 11 hr |
| Jul 20, 1:46 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 8 more | 29 hr |
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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.