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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2013, 5:23 AM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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 7, 2013, 5:23 AM CDT (10:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2013, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 2241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 7, 2:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 426 AM CDT WED AUG 7 2013 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-080930- 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- 426 AM CDT WED AUG 7 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH WINDS UP TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE THE PRIMARY RISK WILL BE FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING TONIGHT...AS THUNDERSTORMS BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD. PLEASE SEE LATEST FLOOD WATCH FOR MORE DETAILS. 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY MORNING WITH SIGNIFICANT FLOODING POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. MEANWHILE ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED FOR THURSDAY NIGHT WHICH COULD ONLY WORSEN ANY FLOODING PROBLEMS...PLEASE SEE LATEST FLOOD WATCH FOR MORE DETAILS. IN ADDITION...AREAL AND RIVER FLOODING COULD LINGER INTO FRIDAY IF NOT LONGER. PLEASE WATCH FOR UPDATED FLOOD AND RIVER WARNING STATEMENTS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE REGION AGAIN FOR SUNDAY THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS FOR THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION...ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING OR HEAVY RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP CJ
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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 523 AM CDT WED AUG 7 2013 KSZ032-071130- RUSSELL- 523 AM CDT WED AUG 7 2013 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RUSSELL COUNTY... AT 520 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF NATOMA...OR 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 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. && LAT...LON 3913 9904 3913 9849 3878 9849 3876 9904 TIME...MOT...LOC 1023Z 292DEG 23KT 3915 9918 KETCHAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 9:10 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 5 days |
| Aug 6, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 10:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 11:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 12:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Marion | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 12:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 1:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 1:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 1:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen, Labette, Neosho | 97 min |
| Aug 7, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 6:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Aug 7, 8:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno, Sedgwick | 68 hr |
| Aug 7, 8:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 12 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 15 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.