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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 4, 2013Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2013, 10:35 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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 4, 2013, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Montgomery County, KS

The radar

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 4, 9:38 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 9:38 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 4:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
454 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 2013

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-052200-
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-
454 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY
WINDS COULD REDEVELOP OVERNIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. PLEASE REFER TO THE FLOOD WATCH
STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.

NUMEROUS COUNTY FLOOD AND RIVER WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT ACROSS
CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS FROM HEAVY RAINS LAST
NIGHT AND THIS MORNING. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD
STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SEVERAL COUNTY AND RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS WILL LIKELY REMAIN IN
EFFECT INTO TUESDAY FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST KANSAS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FOR DETAILS.

CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK ACROSS
THE AREA. THE HIGHEST CHANCES WILL BE MONDAY NIGHT IN CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST KANSAS...AND AREA-WIDE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY
NIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...LOCALIZED FLOODING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL
BE THE MAIN THREATS.

HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES ARE FORECAST IN SOUTH CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.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

Local storm report, Aug 4, 5:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 10:35 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1035 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 2013

KSZ095-099-050400-
MONTGOMERY-WILSON-
1035 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MONTGOMERY AND WILSON COUNTIES...

AT 1030 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEODESHA OR 24
MILES NORTH OF COFFEYVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

WINDS TO 50 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THESE STORMS LIKELY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS SHOULD THE RISK FOR
MINOR LOW-LAND FLOODING BECOME MORE IMMINENT.

&&

LAT...LON 3751 9553 3723 9552 3728 9588 3746 9588
TIME...MOT...LOC 0333Z 269DEG 13KT 3737 9576

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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 4, 7:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno, Rice	24 hr
Aug 4, 8:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	19 hr
Aug 4, 10:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	12 hr
Aug 4, 11:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	8 hr
Aug 5, 12:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 1 more	9 hr
Aug 5, 12:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	36 min
Aug 5, 1:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Greenwood	9 hr
Aug 5, 3:32 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more	6 hr
Aug 5, 3:56 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	70 hr
Aug 5, 4:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	15 hr
Aug 5, 4:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	23 hr
Aug 5, 5:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	9 hr
Aug 5, 8:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	4 days
Aug 5, 9:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Wilson	24 hr
Aug 5, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	36 min
Aug 5, 6:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno, Rice	18 hr

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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.