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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 5, 2016Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 5:11 AM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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: Aug 5, 2016, 5:11 AM CDT (10:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2016, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 583 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 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 Aug 5, 2:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 4:59 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 11:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1144 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

KSZ048-050-051-067-068-050530-
ELLSWORTH KS-HARVEY KS-MCPHERSON KS-RENO KS-RICE KS-
1144 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN RENO...NORTHWESTERN
HARVEY...RICE...SOUTHWESTERN MCPHERSON AND SOUTHERN ELLSWORTH
COUNTIES UNTIL 1230 AM CDT...

AT 1142 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES
SOUTH OF BUSHTON TO NEAR NICKERSON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN
WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HUTCHINSON...LYONS...SOUTH HUTCHINSON...STERLING...INMAN...BUHLER...
NICKERSON...LITTLE RIVER...CHASE...BUSHTON...GENESEO...ALDEN...
LORRAINE...WINDOM...RAYMOND...WILLOWBROOK...FREDERICK...SILICA...
KANOPOLIS LAKE AND HUTCHINSON AIRPORT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUES BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3853 9848 3866 9801 3808 9754 3802 9806
      3811 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 0442Z 253DEG 21KT 3843 9839 3811 9803

RITZMAN

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 1:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
147 AM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016

KSZ068-069-083-092-050745-
SEDGWICK KS-HARVEY KS-SUMNER KS-BUTLER KS-
147 AM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN BUTLER...SEDGWICK...
NORTHERN SUMNER AND CENTRAL HARVEY COUNTIES UNTIL 245 AM CDT...

AT 146 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEWTON TO 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GODDARD TO NEAR WELLINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY
STATIONARY.

INTENSE RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR AND WIND GUSTS UP
TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THIS MAY RESULT IN
PONDING OF WATER OR BRIEF MINOR FLOODING IN LOW-LYING AREAS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WICHITA...DERBY...NEWTON...EL DORADO...ANDOVER...HAYSVILLE...
AUGUSTA...WELLINGTON...PARK CITY...VALLEY CENTER...BEL AIRE...
MULVANE...GODDARD...ROSE HILL...HESSTON...MAIZE...CLEARWATER...
HALSTEAD...NORTH NEWTON AND SEDGWICK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3722 9780 3732 9781 3816 9749 3797 9676
      3748 9708 3747 9715 3737 9715 3712 9731
TIME...MOT...LOC 0646Z 209DEG 3KT 3803 9735 3760 9752 3725 9746

CARUSO

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:11 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
Aug 4, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	46 min
Aug 4, 11:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	6 hr
Aug 5, 1:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner	58 min

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.