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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 10, 2016, 10:10 PM CDT for Sumner 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
- Apr 10, 2016, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2016, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 2443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 13.4
The text
As transmitted.
049 WWUS83 KICT 110310 SPSICT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1010 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2016 KSZ092-093-110345- SUMNER KS-COWLEY KS- 1010 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTHWESTERN COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1006 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF WELLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ARKANSAS CITY...WELLINGTON...OXFORD AND GEUDA SPRINGS. 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 3706 9743 3723 9748 3734 9709 3707 9703 TIME...MOT...LOC 0306Z 259DEG 18KT 3716 9736 $$ ES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 7:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery | 32 min |
| Apr 10, 8:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 40 min |
| Apr 10, 8:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 64 min |
| Apr 10, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 34 min |
| Apr 10, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 37 min |
| Apr 10, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 65 min |
| Apr 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 55 min |
| Apr 10, 9:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Montgomery | 9 hr |
| Apr 10, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 min |
| Apr 10, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Apr 10, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 53 min |
| Apr 11, 3:28 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | ICT | Allen, Butler, Elk, Greenwood, Harper, Kingman and 5 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:28 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ICT | Barton, Chase, Ellsworth, Harvey, Lincoln, McPherson and 5 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner | 23 min |
| Apr 11, 7:05 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Reno and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 22 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.