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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 30, 2026Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 30, 2026, 10:13 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 30, 2026, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2026, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 55

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 924 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 8:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	44 min
Jul 30, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	38 min
Jul 30, 10:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	34 min
Jul 30, 11:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	38 min
Jul 30, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	42 min
Jul 30, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	33 min
Jul 31, 12:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee	26 min
Jul 31, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	33 min

Nearby

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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.