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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jan 29, 2013, 7:33 AM CST for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Jan 29, 2013, 7:33 AM CST (13:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2013, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Chautauqua County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jan 29, 5:31 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 5:31 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 531 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013 .AVIATION...12Z TAFS KRSL/KSLN/KHUT/KICT/KCNU A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO SINK SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE REGION TODAY...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING SOUTHEAST KANSAS DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS. OTHERWISE THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION FOR LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT...WITH SNOW DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT. THIS WILL CREATE POOR AVIATION CONDITIONS AS THE CEILINGS/VISIBILITIES DROP INTO THE IFR CATEGORY. THE SNOW SHOULD BEGIN TO TAPER OFF LATE TONIGHT WITH SOME LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL KANSAS. JAKUB && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 453 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013/ UPDATE... STRONG COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO DROP SOUTHEAST A BIT FASTER THAN EXPECTED AND CURRENTLY MOVING THRU THE WICHITA METRO AREA. AT THE SAME TIME...CONVECTION CONTINUES TO BLOSSOM FROM THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF KANSAS INTO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. PERIODIC TWEAKS TO THE FORECAST WILL NO DOUBT BE NEEDED THROUGH THE MORNING TO REFRESH GRIDS ALONG THE SHARP BOUNDARY. KED PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 325 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013/ DISCUSSION... FORECAST CONCERNS...FRONTAL MOVEMENT/TIMING TODAY AND THEN SNOW CHANCES AND POTENTIAL ACCUMS FOR CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT. TODAY-TONIGHT LATEST SHORT TERM MODELS ARE MORE NOTICEABLY BULLISH ON POST FRONTAL QPF AND LIGHT SNOW ACCUMS ACROSS CENTRAL AS THE UPPER TROF LIFTS NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA EARLY TONIGHT. IN THE MEANTIME...STRONG SURFACE COLD FRONT HAS SLIPPED SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURE FORECAST A BIG CHALLENGE TODAY HINGING ON FRONTAL TIMING...MAINLY ACROSS THE MID-PORTION OF THE AREA INCLUDING GREATER WICHITA. FRONT APPEARS A BIT FASTER THAN EARLIER PROGGED...SO A SLIGHT TWEAK TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST/TRENDS NEEDED...WITH NON-DIURNAL OR FALLING TREND FOR SOUTHERN AREAS TODAY. A PERIOD OF STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE CONVECTION REMAINS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS EARLY TODAY BEFORE THE BETTER MOISTURE/INSTABILITY AXIS GETS SHUNTED EAST AS THE FRONT SLIDES IN LATER THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE MAIN UPPER TROF AND PV ANOMALY MOVES NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING A PERIOD OF POST-FRONTAL PRECIP IS EXPECTED...WITH THERMAL PROFILES SUPPORTING A TRANSITIONAL MIX TO SNOW ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. CONFIDENCE ON AMOUNTS IS MODEST AT BEST...THOUGH AN INCH OR TWO OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50...MAINLY JUST AFTER DARK THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT. IF CONFIDENCE INCREASES WITH LATER MODEL RUNS THE DAY SHIFT MAY NEED TO ISSUE A LOW GRADE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY THESE LOOK TO BE THE COLDEST DAYS OF THE FORECAST PERIOD AS A RATHER IMPRESSIVE MEAN LONGWAVE UPPER TROF TRANSITIONS FROM THE MIDWEST ACROSS THE EASTERN CONUS. ADDITIONAL SHORTWAVES WITHIN THE MEAN FLOW WILL SEND A REINFORCING SHOT OF COLDER AIR ACROSS THE AREA LATE THURSDAY. FRIDAY-MONDAY LITTLE CHANGE TO THE OUTER PERIODS OF THE FORECAST WITH A GRADUAL MODERATING TREND AS THE AMPLITUDE AND BREADTH OF THE EASTERN CONUS LONGWAVE TROF DAMPENS A BIT AND SHIFTS EAST THRU TIME. DARMOFAL && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 52 26 38 22 / 30 50 10 10 HUTCHINSON 44 24 37 20 / 50 60 0 10 NEWTON 47 24 36 21 / 40 50 0 0 ELDORADO 57 25 37 22 / 40 40 10 10 WINFIELD-KWLD 64 27 40 23 / 30 30 10 10 RUSSELL 38 20 35 19 / 60 60 0 10 GREAT BEND 41 21 36 20 / 60 60 0 10 SALINA 43 24 35 19 / 60 60 0 0 MCPHERSON 44 24 36 20 / 60 60 0 0 COFFEYVILLE 69 32 42 24 / 80 30 10 10 CHANUTE 66 29 38 21 / 80 50 10 10 IOLA 65 28 38 21 / 80 50 10 10 PARSONS-KPPF 68 31 39 21 / 80 40 10 10 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 29, 5:22 AM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 522 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-301130- 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- 522 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG AND SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FLINT HILLS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE MAIN RISKS WILL BE HAIL TO AROUND QUARTER SIZE AND STRONG WINDS TO 60 MPH. A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO A PERIOD OF LIGHT SNOW ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS LATER TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. AN INCH OR SO OF SNOW ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE...MAINLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS A REMOTE POSSIBILITY TODAY...MAINLY THIS MORNING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FLINT HILLS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 29, 7:00 AM CST, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
700 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013
KSZ093-098-291330-
CHAUTAUQUA-COWLEY-
700 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHAUTAUQUA AND COWLEY COUNTIES...
AT 656 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF HARDY...OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF
WINFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3700 9698 3732 9678 3731 9653 3730 9652
3730 9627 3700 9630
TIME...MOT...LOC 1300Z 228DEG 43KT 3703 9683
JAKUBSpecial weather statement, Jan 29, 7:33 AM CST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
733 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013
KSZ098-291415-
CHAUTAUQUA-
733 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...
AT 731 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CEDAR VALE TO 20
MILES SOUTH OF GRAINOLA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
&&
LAT...LON 3702 9653 3719 9653 3726 9597 3706 9597
3705 9596 3699 9596 3699 9652
TIME...MOT...LOC 1334Z 243DEG 45KT 3709 9652 3667 9660
JAKUBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 12:39 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Neosho | 21 min |
| Jan 29, 7:00 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 30 min |
| Jan 29, 7:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 46 min |
| Jan 29, 8:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 38 min |
| Jan 29, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 45 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.