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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 19, 2015, 3:03 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Apr 19, 2015, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2015, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1382 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 19, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1141 AM CDT SUN APR 19 2015 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-201645- 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- 1141 AM CDT SUN APR 19 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN DEVELOP AND PERSIST ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON COULD BE STRONG OR POSSIBLY SEVERE. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE SOUTHEAST OF A SEDAN TO INDEPENDENCE LINE. THE MORE INTENSE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL REACH VERY HIGH MONDAY AFTERNOON IN CENTRAL KANSAS MAINLY NORTH IF INTERSTATE 70. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FOR ALL AREAS FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. AT THIS TIME THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE STRONG OR SEVERE...HOWEVER CONTINUE TO MONITOR AS THE PERIOD NEARS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/ JMBW/KETCHAM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 19, 9:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 235 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015 KSZ091-192000- HARPER KS- 235 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHEASTERN HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 233 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MANCHESTER...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANTHONY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BLUFF CITY. LAT...LON 3718 9795 3716 9780 3700 9780 3700 9806 TIME...MOT...LOC 1933Z 306DEG 26KT 3702 9795 CARUSO
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 2:41 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 241 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015 KSZ083-092-192015- SEDGWICK KS-SUMNER KS- 241 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHWESTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 238 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CLEARWATER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A SECOND STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONWAY SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CLEARWATER...CONWAY SPRINGS...MAYFIELD...MILAN AND RIVERDALE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3734 9775 3755 9748 3748 9726 3717 9762 TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 308DEG 11KT 3749 9749 CARUSO
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 3:03 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 303 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015 KSZ069-083-092-093-192045- SEDGWICK KS-SUMNER KS-BUTLER KS-COWLEY KS- 303 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... EASTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHWESTERN COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 259 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BELLE PLAINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF WELLINGTON...AND NEAR DERBY. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WICHITA...DERBY...HAYSVILLE...WELLINGTON...MULVANE...ROSE HILL... DOUGLASS...BELLE PLAINE...OXFORD...UDALL...SOUTH HAVEN...MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE...ROCK...MAYFIELD...RIVERDALE...PERTH AND WELLINGTON AIRPORT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3729 9765 3767 9721 3739 9686 3702 9736 TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 312DEG 26KT 3738 9736 CARUSO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 18, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 24 min |
| Apr 18, 7:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 24 min |
| Apr 18, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 47 min |
| Apr 18, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| Apr 18, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 9:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 30 min |
| Apr 18, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 14 min |
| Apr 19, 1:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 2:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 23 min |
| Apr 19, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 45 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.