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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

October 1, 2014Saline County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Oct 1, 2014, 12:49 AM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Oct 1, 2014, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
Expired: Oct 1, 2014, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Saline County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 309 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: 39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Oct 1, 12:45 AM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 12:45 AM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 3:19 PM CDT, 9 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
319 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-012030-
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-
319 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE AREA TONIGHT.
A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

BETTER CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND SEVERE WEATHER ARE EXPECTED
ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AS A STRONG
UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES INTO KANSAS. THE MAIN SEVERE
RISKS APPEAR TO BE LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS
TO 70 MPH...AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO.

CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER INTO THURSDAY...MAINLY FOR
LOCATIONS ALONG AND EAST OF THE TURNPIKE...A FEW STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 30, 8:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 1, 12:19 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 1, 12:49 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 30, 8:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	27 min
Oct 1, 8:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	23 min
Oct 1, 8:50 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	2 hr
Oct 1, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	26 min
Oct 1, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	49 min
Oct 1, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	66 min
Oct 1, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	35 min
Oct 1, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	33 min
Oct 1, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	43 min
Oct 1, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette	46 min
Oct 1, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	25 min
Oct 1, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	52 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.