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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 7:17 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 4, 2015, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 906 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 4, 6:54 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 6:54 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 7:17 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 5, 1:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 2:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 2:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Saline | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 3:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 3:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Marion, Rice | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 4:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 5:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 5:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 5:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Rice and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 5:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 6:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 24 min |
| Aug 5, 6:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 6:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 24 min |
| Aug 5, 8:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Woodson | 4 hr |
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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.