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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

March 30, 2016Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Mar 30, 2016, 12:58 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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: Mar 30, 2016, 12:58 PM CDT (17:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2016, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Chautauqua County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 593 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 579 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Mar 30, 12:58 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 12:58 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 12:44 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1244 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-311745-
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-
1244 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST
CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A FEW SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY
ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 135. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE LIKELY WHILE A LOWER RISK FOR A TORNADO
EXISTS. .

STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP BEHIND AN EASTWARD MOVING
DRYLINE RESULTING IN A VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER ACROSS MUCH OF
CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL RETURN ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY RESULTING
IN A VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL KANSAS DURING
THE AFTERNOON HOURS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY
ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 135.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/

KRC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 12:58 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1258 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

KSZ094-098-301845-
CHAUTAUQUA KS-ELK KS-
1258 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 145 PM CDT

* AT 1256 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SEDAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SEDAN...LONGTON...PERU...CHAUTAUQUA AND HALE.

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 3708 9635 3747 9603 3740 9596 3717 9596
      3700 9615
TIME...MOT...LOC 1756Z 218DEG 36KT 3709 9621

KETCHAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 1:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	39 min
Mar 30, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	51 min
Mar 30, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	52 min
Mar 30, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	39 min
Mar 30, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	47 min
Mar 30, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	24 min
Mar 30, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	47 min
Mar 30, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	46 min
Mar 30, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Greenwood	43 min
Mar 30, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	38 min
Mar 30, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	68 min
Mar 30, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	52 min
Mar 30, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	29 min
Mar 30, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	42 min
Mar 30, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	15 min
Mar 30, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	36 min
Mar 30, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	44 min
Mar 30, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	44 min
Mar 30, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	51 min
Mar 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	57 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.