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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

July 23, 2016Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2016, 4:55 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 23, 2016, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -499 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 23, 3:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 11:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1038 AM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-241645-
YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS-
DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-
GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1038 AM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016 /1138 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE NEAR 105 FOR LOCATIONS ROUGHLY ALONG
AND EAST OF A GOVE TO HOXIE TO TRENTON LINE.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO
TONIGHT COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL BEING THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
ARE EXPECTED. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN
THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:55 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
455 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2016

KSZ042-232230-
WICHITA KS-
455 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN WICHITA COUNTY UNTIL
530 PM CDT...

AT 455 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES NORTHEAST OF LEOTI...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
WICHITA COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3862 10133 3866 10113 3852 10113 3850 10130
TIME...MOT...LOC 2155Z 270DEG 17KT 3856 10125

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	9 min
Jul 22, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	20 min
Jul 22, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	25 min
Jul 22, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	29 min
Jul 22, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	14 min
Jul 22, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	14 min
Jul 22, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	25 min
Jul 22, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	31 min
Jul 22, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	29 min
Jul 23, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	34 min
Jul 23, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	31 min
Jul 23, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	14 min
Jul 22, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	12 min
Jul 22, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	13 min
Jul 22, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma	27 min
Jul 22, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	31 min
Jul 22, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	25 min
Jul 22, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	16 min
Jul 23, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	44 min
Jul 23, 12:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	67 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.