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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2013, 5:54 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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 5, 2013, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2013, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Harper County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 965 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 5, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 3:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 351 PM CDT MON AUG 5 2013 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-062100- 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- 351 PM CDT MON AUG 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD EAST INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL TO QUARTER SIZE AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE BECOMING WIDESPREAD OVERNIGHT WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS COULD LEAD TO MORE FLOODING PROBLEMS. NUMEROUS COUNTY FLOOD AND RIVER WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT ACROSS CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FOR DETAILS. HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SEVERAL COUNTY AND RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS WILL LIKELY REMAIN IN EFFECT INTO TUESDAY AND MAYBE LONGER 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 AND INTO THE UPCOMING WEEKEND ACROSS THE AREA. THE HIGHEST CHANCES FOR AREA-WIDE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FOR TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. THIS WILL ONLY PROLONG OR WORSEN THE FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE REGION. HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 106 DEGREES ARE FORECAST IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... A FEW STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:54 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
554 PM CDT MON AUG 5 2013
KSZ091-052330-
HARPER-
554 PM CDT MON AUG 5 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HARPER COUNTY...
AT 553 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANCHESTER...OR 7 MILES
SOUTH OF ANTHONY...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL 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. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE FLOODING WARNINGS...SHOULD
THE RISK FOR MINOR LOW-LAND FLOODING BECOME MORE IMMINENT.
&&
LAT...LON 3712 9821 3725 9786 3713 9780 3703 9781
3699 9795 3699 9815
TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 249DEG 13KT 3706 9807
ESThe 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, 10:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery | 25 min |
| 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, 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.