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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 9, 2016, 5:06 PM CDT for Harvey County, McPherson County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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
- May 9, 2016, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Harvey County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 9, 2:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 2:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 341 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-102045- 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- 341 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS, EAST CENTRAL KANSAS, SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AND WINDS TO 65 MPH. A TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT FOR AREAS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 54. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL GRADUALLY MOVE EAST LATE THIS EVENING INTO THE FLINT HILLS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BECOMING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE ARE PERIODIC CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY. THERE IS CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY IN THE DETAILS...BUT SOME STRONG STORMS ARE PROBABLE. AT THIS TIME...THE BEST CHANCE FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM SALINA TO WICHITA TO WELLINGTON. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION, SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT: HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/ JMR/KETCHAM
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Local storm report, May 9, 4:34 PM CDT, 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 30 min |
| May 8, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 58 min |
| May 8, 8:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 36 min |
| May 8, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 21 min |
| May 8, 9:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 31 min |
| May 8, 10:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 29 min |
| May 8, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 61 min |
| May 8, 11:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 39 min |
| May 8, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 47 min |
| May 8, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 67 min |
| May 9, 12:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 9 hr |
| May 9, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 28 min |
| May 9, 1:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 31 min |
| May 9, 1:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 36 min |
| May 9, 2:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 46 min |
| May 9, 2:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 27 min |
| May 9, 2:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 40 min |
| May 9, 2:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 24 min |
| May 9, 9:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 9 hr |
| May 9, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 23 min |
| May 9, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 45 min |
| May 9, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 43 min |
| May 9, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 46 min |
| May 9, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 40 min |
| May 9, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 43 min |
| May 9, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 38 min |
| May 9, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 37 min |
| May 9, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 41 min |
| May 9, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 41 min |
| May 9, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 28 min |
| May 9, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 46 min |
| May 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 20 min |
| May 9, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 49 min |
| May 9, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 47 min |
| May 9, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 43 min |
| May 9, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 50 min |
| May 9, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 49 min |
| May 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 33 min |
| May 9, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 32 min |
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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.