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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

July 20, 2015Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2015, 9:49 PM CDT for Kingman 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: Jul 20, 2015, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2015, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 295 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: 1564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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 Jul 20, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 4:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 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
Jul 20, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion	56 min
Jul 20, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	2 hr
Jul 20, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	112 min
Jul 21, 12:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	5 hr
Jul 21, 3:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	6 hr
Jul 21, 3:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	25 min
Jul 21, 4:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	28 min
Jul 21, 5:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Elk	5 hr
Jul 21, 6:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	34 min
Jul 21, 6:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	5 hr
Jul 21, 7:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	31 min
Jul 21, 7:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harper	5 hr
Jul 21, 3:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	5 hr
Jul 21, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	33 min
Jul 21, 4:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	5 hr
Jul 21, 4:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick	5 hr
Jul 21, 4:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	4 hr
Jul 21, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	26 min
Jul 21, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	28 min
Jul 21, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	27 min
Jul 21, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	29 min

Nearby

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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.