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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

May 31, 2013Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2013, 2:51 AM CDT for Marion 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: May 31, 2013, 2:51 AM CDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2013, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Marion County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 753 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 May 30, 11:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 11:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 1:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 11:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 2:27 AM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 2:51 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
May 30, 8:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	107 min
May 30, 9:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	17 hr
May 30, 9:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Labette	71 hr
May 31, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	33 min
May 31, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	43 min
May 31, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	62 min
May 31, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	28 min
May 31, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	49 min
May 31, 4:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Montgomery	23 min
May 31, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	31 min
May 31, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	30 min
May 31, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	31 min
May 31, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	29 min
May 31, 4:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho	6 hr
May 31, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	32 min
May 31, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	41 min
May 31, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	25 min
May 31, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	51 min
May 31, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	43 min
May 31, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	25 min
May 31, 5:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	3 hr
May 31, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	33 min
May 31, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	44 min
May 31, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	35 min
May 31, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	34 min
May 31, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	46 min
May 31, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Montgomery	36 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.