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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

May 7, 20144 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 7, 2014, 7:34 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: May 7, 2014, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 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 May 7, 6:57 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 6:57 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 4:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
457 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2014

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-082200-
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-
457 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

AN EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE UNTIL EARLY THIS
EVENING ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL AND MOST OF SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS
ALONG...AND WEST...OF I-135. PLEASE REFER TO THE RED FLAG WARNING
FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF BOTH GOLFBALL-SIZED HAIL AND 60 TO
70 MPH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL AREAS WITH SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS
AT GREATEST RISK. A TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT EARLY THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF HAIL AROUND HALF DOLLAR-SIZED AND
WINDS AROUND 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE OVER PRIM ARLY SOUTHEAST KANSAS
THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER OVER
PRIMARILY SOUTHEAST KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING BUT SHOULD BE NEITHER
STRONG NOR SEVERE.

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS ON SATURDAY
WITH CHANCES INCREASING OVER ALL AREAS FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SUNDAY NIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WOULD CONTINUE OVER ALL AREAS
ON MONDAY WITH THE GREATEST POTENTIAL OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FROM
SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT.

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FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT
(LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 6:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 6:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, May 7, 6:41 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 7:34 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	26 min
May 7, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	28 min
May 7, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	48 min
May 7, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	44 min
May 7, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	37 min
May 7, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	45 min
May 7, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	67 min
May 7, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	33 min
May 7, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	26 min
May 7, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Rice	41 min
May 8, 2:45 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery	2 hr
May 8, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	33 min
May 8, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	38 min
May 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	27 min
May 8, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	32 min
May 8, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	34 min
May 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	32 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.