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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

May 17, 2016Chautauqua County, Cowley County, Elk County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 17, 2016, 4:07 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Cowley County, Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 17, 2016, 4:07 AM CDT (09:07 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2016, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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: 534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 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 May 17, 3:13 AM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:13 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 12:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 16, 10:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1035 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

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

1015 PM     HEAVY RAIN       1 W WEST WICHITA        37.69N 97.48W
05/16/2016  M1.30 INCH       SEDGWICK           KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

            1.30 INCHES OF RAINFALL MEASURED FOR MAY 16TH AS OF 1015
            PM CDT.

&&

JMC

Special weather statement, May 16, 10:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1036 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

KSZ069-083-092-093-170430-
SEDGWICK KS-SUMNER KS-BUTLER KS-COWLEY KS-
1036 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1033 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR
  UDALL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DERBY...WELLINGTON...MULVANE...ROSE HILL...DOUGLASS...BELLE PLAINE...
  UDALL...ATLANTA...ROCK...RIVERDALE AND WELLINGTON AIRPORT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND EVEN
SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING.  LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE
FLOOD WARNINGS...SHOULD THE RISK FOR MINOR LOW-LAND FLOODING BECOME
MORE IMMINENT.

&&

LAT...LON 3744 9753 3769 9691 3746 9666 3728 9742
TIME...MOT...LOC 0333Z 255DEG 23KT 3744 9714

KETCHAM

Local storm report, May 16, 10:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1055 PM CDT MON MAY 16 2016

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

1054 PM     HEAVY RAIN       9 N WELLINGTON          37.40N 97.40W
05/16/2016  M4.08 INCH       SUMNER             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SINCE MIDNIGHT. NEAR RIDGE AND HOOVER.

&&

BDK

Local storm report, May 16, 11:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 4:07 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
May 16, 8:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	65 min
May 16, 10:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	54 min
May 16, 10:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner	12 hr
May 17, 4:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	7 hr
May 17, 8:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	25 hr
May 17, 12:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	24 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2016 Every 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.