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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2016, 6:25 PM CDT for Greenwood 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
- Aug 9, 2016, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 828 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 9, 6:14 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 6:14 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 4:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 421 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2016 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-101545- 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- 421 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS, SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 106 ARE EXPECTED EARLY THIS EVENING WITH THE HIGHEST VALUES IN FAR SOUTHEAST KANSAS. PLEASE REFER TO THE HEAT ADVISORY FOR DETAILS. A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT. ANY OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO PRODUCE HIGH RAINFALL RATES THAT MAY LEAD TO VERY LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 108 ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...WITH THE HIGHEST VALUES OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS. A COLD FRONT WILL BRING BETTER THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TO THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION, SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT: HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/ LAWSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:39 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 539 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2016 KSZ092-092315- SUMNER KS- 539 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH HAVEN...OR 12 MILES EAST OF CALDWELL...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SOUTH HAVEN...HUNNEWELL AND PERTH. LAT...LON 3719 9754 3720 9722 3700 9725 3700 9751 TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 179DEG 11KT 3704 9737 DARMOFAL
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 6:25 PM CDT, 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:58 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 16 hr |
| Aug 9, 9:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 18 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:27 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 27 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 59 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.