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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 3, 2013Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2013, 12:37 AM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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: Aug 3, 2013, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2013, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Greenwood County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 2659 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.1
Supercell composite: 17.9

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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 Aug 2, 11:39 PM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 11:39 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 7:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
728 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-032115-
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-
728 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 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 ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA
THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS
TO 60 MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE
SOUTHEAST AND TRANSITION INTO A LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING
THREAT TONIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO LATEST FLOOD WATCH FOR ADDITIONAL
DETAILS.

AREAL FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR RICE COUNTY AND ALSO
NORTHEAST RENO COUNTY...AND RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT
FOR PORTIONS OF THE COTTONWOOD RIVER. PLEASE REFER TO THE FLOOD
WARNING STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM SATURDAY
THROUGH SUNDAY...AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLS ACROSS THE REGION.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.
THE HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SERIOUS FLOODING PROBLEMS LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING.

AT LEAST STRONG STORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY
WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

HEAT INDICES WILL BE NEAR 100 ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER EACH
AFTERNOON FROM MONDAY TO WEDNESDAY.

.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

HOWERTON/LAWSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 10:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 11:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 11:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 12:30 AM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 12:37 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
Aug 2, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	35 min
Aug 2, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	46 min
Aug 2, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	40 min
Aug 2, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Reno, Rice	43 min
Aug 2, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Reno, Rice	47 min
Aug 2, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	35 min
Aug 2, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	38 min
Aug 2, 10:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	9 hr
Aug 2, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	38 min
Aug 3, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	59 min
Aug 3, 7:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	24 hr
Aug 3, 8:05 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase	54 hr
Aug 3, 10:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	24 hr

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.