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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2013, 5:48 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2013, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Chautauqua County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 8, 5:46 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 5:46 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 137 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-091845- 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- 137 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS MAINLY SOUTHEAST KANSAS. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY PRODUCE ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. THE ISOLATED HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL LOCALIZED FLOODING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MORE LIKELY LATE TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE ADDITIONAL FLOOD PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. HOWEVER ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER. SEVERAL RIVER AND COUNTY FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR MAINLY SOUTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SEE THE LATEST WARNINGS AND STATEMENT FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ONGOING FRIDAY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. FLOOD PRODUCING RAIN IS THE PRIMARY THREAT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO PRIMARILY CENTRAL KANSAS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. STORMS WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE AND SPREAD OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS SUNDAY NIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE OVER THE REGION FOR MOST OF THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK. THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT...HOWEVER REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OR RAINFALL GREATER THAN 1.5 INCHES WOULD BE APPRECIATED. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP ES/HOWERTON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:51 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 451 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 KSZ098-082215- CHAUTAUQUA- 451 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY... AT 449 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF CEDAR VALE...OR 17 MILES WEST OF SEDAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. PEA 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. ADDITIONALLY...THESE STORMS MAY 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 3714 9653 3725 9653 3730 9619 3707 9619 TIME...MOT...LOC 2151Z 270DEG 14KT 3719 9647 KLEINSASSER
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDT, 50 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, 5:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 45 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 |
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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.