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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 16, 2025Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Sep 16, 2025, 6:21 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued: Sep 16, 2025, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 2025, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 55

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 1220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Sep 16, 2:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 16, 3:24 AM CDT, 14 hours 57 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
324 AM CDT Tue Sep 16 2025

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-170830-
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-
324 AM CDT Tue Sep 16 2025 /224 AM MDT Tue Sep 16 2025/

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

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Isolated to widely scattered strong to severe thunderstorms will
be possible after 3pm west of a Ulysses to Garden City to Wakeeney
line. Main hazards will be 60mph wind gusts and isolated hail.

After sunset the risk for severe weather will decrease but the
chance of locally heavy rainfall will be possible from scattered
thunderstorms as they cross southwest Kansas overnight.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday

Thunderstorms will be possible Wednesday and Wednesday night. A
few of these storms will be capable of producing wind gusts to 50
mph or higher, hail and locally heavy rainfall.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 16, 4:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 16, 4:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 16, 6:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
621 PM CDT Tue Sep 16 2025

KSZ076-086-087-162345-
Seward KS-Meade KS-Haskell KS-
621 PM CDT Tue Sep 16 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN SEWARD...WESTERN
MEADE AND SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL COUNTIES THROUGH 645 PM CDT...

At 621 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles northwest of Kismet, moving northeast at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel 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 northeastern
Seward, western Meade and southeastern Haskell Counties.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3719 10084 3729 10095 3753 10075 3736 10053
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 224DEG 26KT 3729 10085

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 16, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	25 min
Sep 16, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant	36 min
Sep 16, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant	32 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.