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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2013, 5:15 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 8, 2013, 5:15 AM CDT (10:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2013, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Montgomery County, KS, Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
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 8, 3:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 448 AM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-091000- 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- 448 AM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER ALL AREAS...ESPECIALLY THIS MORNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH...ARE LIKELY OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL AND ESPECIALLY SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS MORNING. THE GREATEST THREAT CONTINUES TO BE TORRENTIAL RAINS THAT WOULD NO DOUBT WORSEN THE FLOODING SITUATION. FURTHER COUNTY FLOOD WARNINGS ARE LIKELY WITH RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUING IN MANY AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. ALL AREAS WILL EXPERIENCE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WHICH MAY BE SEVERE WITH MORE TORRENTIAL RAINS LIKELY. ONE IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO REFER TO THE FLOOD WATCH THAT REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL AREAS THRU 7 AM FRIDAY AND TO CLOSELY MONITOR ALL RIVER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER ALL AREAS ON FRIDAY WHICH ARE LIKELY TO PROLONG FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD GRADUALLY END IN A WEST TO EAST MANNER FRIDAY EVENING. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO PRIMARILY CENTRAL KANSAS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THEN GRADUALLY INCREASE AS THEY SPREAD SOUTHEAST OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS SUNDAY NIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE OVER THE REGION FOR MOST OF THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK AND MAY BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. HOWEVER...RIVER AND RAINFALL REPORTS ARE NEEDED AND THEREFORE GREATLY APPRECIATED. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP ES
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Local storm report, Aug 8, 4:44 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 3:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 3:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 4:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner | 9 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 4:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 4:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 4:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 8 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 5:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 6:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette, Neosho, Wilson | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 7:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 12 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Elk | 24 hr |
| Aug 8, 11:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 28 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 14 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 5 days |
| Aug 8, 1:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 32 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 27 min |
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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.