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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2014, 3:14 AM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2014, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Harvey County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 7, 12:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 12:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
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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
Local storm report, Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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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
HAYESSpecial weather statement, Aug 7, 3:14 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 314 AM CDT THU AUG 7 2014 KSZ068-083-070845- HARVEY-SEDGWICK- 314 AM CDT THU AUG 7 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHERN HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTH CENTRAL SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 345 AM CDT * AT 312 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HALSTEAD...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SEDGWICK...MAIZE...VALLEY CENTER AND BENTLEY. 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 3790 9770 3808 9759 3795 9719 3772 9744 TIME...MOT...LOC 0814Z 307DEG 21KT 3794 9757 LAWSON
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, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 27 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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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.