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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 6, 2016, 2:32 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Apr 6, 2016, 2:32 AM CDT (07:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2016, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Marion County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Apr 5, 11:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 11:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1041 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2016 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-070345- 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- 1041 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AREAS OF SHOWERS AND PERHAPS A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL CREATE EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ON WEDNESDAY AND A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT. VERY HIGH GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL RETURN FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ON THURSDAY AND EACH AFTERNOON FROM SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS OF A SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER THREAT AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 2:32 AM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 7:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson, Reno, Rice, Saline | 64 min |
| Apr 6, 3:29 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:36 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Russell and 1 more | 11 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.