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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 12, 2014, 2:13 AM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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 12, 2014, 2:13 AM CDT (07:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2014, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 1294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
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 May 12, 12:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 12:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1155 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-130500- 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- 1155 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT AREAWIDE. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE THROUGH 3 AM ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL...EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND 70 MPH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. THERE WILL ALSO BE A RISK FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND POTENTIAL MINOR FLOODING OVERNIGHT EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM KINGMAN TO HUTCHINSON TO SALINA...AS THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOP AND TRAIN ALONG THE SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS PAST MIDNIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE WIND ADVISORY FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER INTO MONDAY ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG STORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON. VERY HIGH GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER IS POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY... GENERALLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 14. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 42 min |
| May 11, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 43 min |
| May 11, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 41 min |
| May 11, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 60 min |
| May 11, 7:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 12 hr |
| May 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, Russell | 47 min |
| May 11, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 33 min |
| May 11, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 24 min |
| May 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 49 min |
| May 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Reno, Rice | 46 min |
| May 11, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 20 min |
| May 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno | 48 min |
| May 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 33 min |
| May 11, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 33 min |
| May 11, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 46 min |
| May 11, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 51 min |
| May 11, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 58 min |
| May 11, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno | 48 min |
| May 11, 11:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 34 min |
| May 11, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick | 48 min |
| May 12, 12:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 24 min |
| May 12, 12:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 28 min |
| May 12, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 31 min |
| May 12, 1:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 29 min |
| May 12, 1:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 31 min |
| May 12, 1:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 25 min |
| May 12, 1:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 28 min |
| May 12, 1:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 23 min |
| May 12, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 30 min |
| May 12, 2:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 35 min |
| May 12, 3:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 37 min |
| May 12, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Neosho | 24 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.