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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2015, 3:04 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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 23, 2015, 3:04 AM CDT (08:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2015, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 2366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
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 Aug 23, 12:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 12:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 412 PM CDT SAT AUG 22 2015 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-232115- 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- 412 PM CDT SAT AUG 22 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A STRONG COLD FRONT BY 5 TO 7 PM ACROSS NORTH- CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE EVENING HOURS...MAINLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50...CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL GREATER THAN 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 70 MPH...AND PERHAPS AN ISOLATED BRIEF TORNADO OR TWO. STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN LIKELY OVERNIGHT...AS THE STORMS MERGE INTO A FEW CLUSTERS AND CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THIS ACTIVITY MAY CONTAIN NICKEL TO HALF-DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. FURTHERMORE...POCKETS OF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED LOW-LAND AND STREET FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER OVER FAR SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS SUNDAY MORNING...BUT WILL BE NEITHER STRONG NOR SEVERE. OFF-AND-ON SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES COULD RETURN TO THE AREA STARTING TUESDAY NIGHT AND PERSIST THROUGH LATE WEEK...MAINLY WEST OF THE FLINT HILLS. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS UNLIKELY...STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING UNTIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF KINGMAN TO WICHITA TO EUREKA. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 23, 12:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 9:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ottawa | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 35 min |
| Aug 22, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 11:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 11:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 27 min |
| Aug 23, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 12:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 28 min |
| Aug 23, 12:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 36 min |
| Aug 23, 1:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 1:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase | 9 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 2:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Neosho, Wilson and 1 more | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 3:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 8 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 41 min |
| Aug 23, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 23 min |
| Aug 23, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 4:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 4:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 44 min |
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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.