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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 7, 2014Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2014, 2:18 AM CDT for Labette 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 7, 2014, 2:18 AM CDT (07:18 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2014, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Labette County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 1446 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 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 Aug 7, 12:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 12:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 7:05 PM CDT, 7 hours 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
705 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2014

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-080015-
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-
705 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING INTO
TONIGHT...PRIMARILY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 135. A FEW STRONG
STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THURSDAY THROUGH THIS
WEEKEND. A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE PRIMARILY DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL
HAIL.

HEAT INDICES OF NEAR 100 DEGREES WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE
AFTERNOON HOURS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.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

JMC/KETCHAM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:51 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:14 AM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:18 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
218 AM CDT THU AUG 7 2014

KSZ100-070745-
LABETTE-
218 AM CDT THU AUG 7 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHERN LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 215 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM CHETOPA TO 7 MILES EAST OF COFFEYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CHETOPA.

WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3699 9508 3699 9552 3723 9552 3724 9507
      3700 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 0718Z 277DEG 48KT 3706 9507 3705 9546

HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	28 min
Aug 6, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	28 min
Aug 6, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase, Harvey	37 min
Aug 6, 10:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Harvey	26 min
Aug 6, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	36 min
Aug 6, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	31 min
Aug 6, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	40 min
Aug 7, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	30 min
Aug 7, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner	49 min
Aug 7, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	49 min
Aug 7, 1:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	35 min
Aug 7, 1:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	24 min
Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	35 min
Aug 7, 2:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	31 min
Aug 7, 3:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	31 min
Aug 7, 4:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	24 min
Aug 7, 5:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	33 min

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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.