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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2013Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2013, 2:08 AM CDT for Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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
Jun 5, 2013, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2013, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2013-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1441 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2013-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
7.6

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The text

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

431 
WWUS83 KICT 050708
SPSICT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
208 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013

KSZ048-050-050745-
ELLSWORTH-RICE-
208 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ELLSWORTH AND RICE COUNTIES...

AT 202 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GENESEO...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF
ELLSWORTH...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3877 9793 3832 9794 3832 9840 3874 9837
TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 266DEG 28KT 3854 9815

$$

LAWSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 12:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTBarton30 min
Jun 5, 12:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTRussell38 min
Jun 5, 12:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTEllsworth31 min
Jun 5, 1:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTBarton30 min
Jun 5, 1:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLincoln29 min
Jun 5, 1:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTRice27 min
Jun 5, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman66 min
Jun 5, 2:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTEllsworth33 min
Jun 5, 2:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner30 min
Jun 5, 2:52 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSaline38 min
Jun 5, 3:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner29 min
Jun 5, 3:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTCowley34 min
Jun 5, 4:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua, Cowley, Elk57 min
Jun 5, 5:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTMontgomery, Wilson61 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.