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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

April 11, 20166 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 11, 2016, 6:52 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 23 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 11, 2016, 6:52 AM CDT (11:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 2016, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 2541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Apr 11, 6:30 AM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 6:30 AM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 11, 4:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 11, 3:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
311 AM CDT MON APR 11 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0832 PM     HAIL             5 S INDEPENDENCE        37.16N 95.71W
04/10/2016  E1.00 INCH       MONTGOMERY         KS   PUBLIC

            QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED TO DISPATCH AT STATE LAKE.

0840 PM     HAIL             6 SW INDEPENDENCE       37.17N 95.79W
04/10/2016  E1.00 INCH       MONTGOMERY         KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0905 PM     HAIL             ARKANSAS CITY           37.07N 97.04W
04/10/2016  E1.00 INCH       COWLEY             KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN ARKANSAS CITY.

0909 PM     HAIL             ERIE                    37.57N 95.24W
04/10/2016  E1.00 INCH       NEOSHO             KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

0920 PM     HAIL             8 E ARKANSAS CITY       37.07N 96.90W
04/10/2016  E1.00 INCH       COWLEY             KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTS DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL.

0940 PM     HAIL             ELK CITY                37.29N 95.91W
04/10/2016  E0.88 INCH       MONTGOMERY         KS   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORT VIA FACEBOOK OF NICKEL SIZED HAIL. TIME IS
            APPROXIMATED.

0954 PM     HAIL             INDEPENDENCE            37.23N 95.71W
04/10/2016  E1.00 INCH       MONTGOMERY         KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NORTH SIDE OF TOWN.

0959 PM     HAIL             6 NE CALDWELL           37.10N 97.53W
04/10/2016  E0.75 INCH       SUMNER             KS   STORM CHASER

1013 PM     FLOOD            INDEPENDENCE            37.23N 95.71W
04/10/2016                   MONTGOMERY         KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS FLOODING WITH 6 TO 8 INCHES OF
            WATER OVER LAUREL AND HACKNEY ROADS AS WELL AS FLOODING
            ON BOTH SIDES OF TOWN.

1027 PM     HAIL             MULVANE                 37.48N 97.24W
04/10/2016  M1.00 INCH       SEDGWICK           KS   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORT VIA KWCH OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN A PICTURE
            FROM A VIEWER. TIME IS BASED ON RADAR.

1027 PM     HAIL             MULVANE                 37.48N 97.24W
04/10/2016  E0.88 INCH       SEDGWICK           KS   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORTS VIA FACEBOOK OF PEA TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL
            COVERING THE GROUND.

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JMR

Special weather statement, Apr 11, 6:52 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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, 10:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	35 min
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, 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.