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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

March 30, 2013Harvey County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Mar 30, 2013, 4:06 AM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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: Mar 30, 2013, 4:06 AM CDT (09:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2013, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Harvey County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1041 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Mar 30, 3:45 AM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 3:45 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 29, 10:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1031 PM CDT FRI MAR 29 2013

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-310345-
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-
1031 PM CDT FRI MAR 29 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF
THE AREA. A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL COULD AFFECT
SOUTHERN KANSAS OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON
AND SATURDAY EVENING. THE GREATEST SEVERE THREAT WILL BE ALONG OR
EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE WITH QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND 60 MPH
WINDS BOTH POSSIBLE.

MUCH COLDER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY...
CAUSING
THE RAIN TO MIX WITH...AND THEN CHANGE TO SNOW BEFORE ENDING ON
MONDAY EVENING. SOME LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE ON
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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 12:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1217 AM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013

KSZ092-300545-
SUMNER-
1217 AM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013

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

AT 1216 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SOUTH HAVEN...OR 17 MILES SOUTH
OF WELLINGTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3706 9756 3724 9716 3722 9715 3700 9715
      3699 9717 3699 9752
TIME...MOT...LOC 0517Z 245DEG 18KT 3702 9739

BILLINGS

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 12:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1257 AM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013

KSZ092-093-300630-
COWLEY-SUMNER-
1257 AM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COWLEY AND SUMNER COUNTIES...

AT 1254 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GEUDA SPRINGS...OR 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WINFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3735 9688 3714 9676 3704 9714 3719 9722
TIME...MOT...LOC 0557Z 244DEG 21KT 3712 9714

BILLINGS

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 1:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
126 AM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013

KSZ033-300700-
LINCOLN-
126 AM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013

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

AT 122 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LUCAS...OR 19 MILES WEST OF LINCOLN...AND
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3902 9809 3887 9821 3887 9848 3908 9849
      3912 9848
TIME...MOT...LOC 0626Z 290DEG 20KT 3901 9847

BILLINGS

Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:45 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:46 AM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 30, 4:06 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	28 min
Mar 30, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	33 min
Mar 30, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	34 min
Mar 30, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	37 min
Mar 30, 3:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	29 min
Mar 30, 4:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	48 min
Mar 30, 5:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	32 min
Mar 30, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	35 min
Mar 30, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	40 min
Mar 30, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	25 min
Mar 30, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	47 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.