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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

July 14, 2012Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2012, 4:44 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 14, 2012, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2012, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

County Reno County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 14, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 4:27 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
427 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2012

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-152130-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
427 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

HEAT INDICES WILL BE AROUND 100 DEGREES ACROSS CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES WILL RISE ABOVE 100 DEGREES FOR MUCH OF THE
REGION ON SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EAST OF THE KANSAS
TURNPIKE MONDAY AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

JAKUB/PEARCE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:44 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
444 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2012

KSZ067-142215-
RENO-
444 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN RENO COUNTY...

AT 441 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ABBYVILLE...OR 20 MILES WEST OF
HUTCHINSON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

DOWNBURST WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3793 9809 3780 9822 3788 9842 3801 9843
      3811 9831 3806 9811
TIME...MOT...LOC 2143Z 027DEG 8KT 3797 9826

DARMOFAL

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.