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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 22, 2014Chase County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2014, 3:01 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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 22, 2014, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

County Chase County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 22, 12:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 12:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 22, 11:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 22, 2:38 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 22, 2:41 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 22, 3:01 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
301 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2014

KSZ053-069-070-222030-
BUTLER-CHASE-GREENWOOD-
301 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN CHASE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 259 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CASSODAY...OR 17 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF EL DORADO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CASSODAY AND MATFIELD GREEN.

SMALL 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 3825 9653 3802 9634 3793 9673 3808 9683
TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 241DEG 20KT 3803 9669

LAWSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 8:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTRussell31 min
Aug 21, 9:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTRussell28 min
Aug 21, 9:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLincoln36 min
Aug 22, 2:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTWoodson22 min
Aug 22, 2:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChase19 min
Aug 22, 3:18 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryICTAllen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 15 more4 hr
Aug 22, 3:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTGreenwood18 min
Aug 22, 3:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTGreenwood21 min
Aug 22, 4:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTGreenwood37 min
Aug 22, 4:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTReno25 min
Aug 22, 5:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTReno31 min
Aug 22, 5:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTReno31 min
Aug 22, 6:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTReno30 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2014Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.