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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

July 14, 2014Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2014, 2:13 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 14, 2014, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2014, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 676 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 Jul 14, 12:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 7:17 AM CDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:13 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
213 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2014

KSZ069-142000-
BUTLER-
213 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 210 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF BURNS...OR 10 MILES
  NORTH OF EL DORADO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EL DORADO...EL DORADO LAKE AND ROSALIA.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORM INTENSIFIES AND
BECOMES SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3799 9702 3809 9685 3809 9683 3783 9655
      3769 9678
TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 323DEG 18KT 3795 9684

KETCHAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	40 min
Jul 14, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	41 min
Jul 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	45 min
Jul 14, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	52 min
Jul 14, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk	44 min
Jul 14, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	62 min
Jul 14, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk	53 min
Jul 14, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	23 min
Jul 14, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	29 min
Jul 14, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	48 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.