Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2013
Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 12:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 1:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Rice | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 2:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 2:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 2:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 3:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 3:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 4:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 5:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 61 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.