Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2016, 10:21 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Montgomery County, Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 19, 2016, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
118
WWUS83 KICT 200321
SPSICT
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1021 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2016
KSZ094-095-098-099-200400-
CHAUTAUQUA KS-ELK KS-WILSON KS-MONTGOMERY KS-
1021 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...
EASTERN ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...
WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 1019 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES
EAST OF HOWARD...TO NEAR LONGTON...TO PERU...AND MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COFFEYVILLE...INDEPENDENCE...NEODESHA...FREDONIA...CHERRYVALE...
CANEY...SEDAN...DEARING...ALTOONA...LONGTON...ELK CITY...TYRO...
PERU...LIBERTY...CHAUTAUQUA...ELK FALLS...HAVANA...ELGIN...
BOLTON AND SYCAMORE.
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.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH
FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3700 9631 3732 9618 3753 9627 3765 9562
3738 9552 3701 9562
TIME...MOT...LOC 0321Z 263DEG 31KT 3750 9611 3733 9601 3711 9609
$$
KLEINSASSERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 7:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 7:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 39 min |
| Aug 19, 7:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 8:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 11 hr |
| Aug 19, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 9:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk, Neosho, Wilson | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 28 min |
| Aug 19, 10:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 35 min |
| Aug 20, 3:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 36 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 57 hr |
| Aug 20, 8:20 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 23 hr |
| Aug 20, 9:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 17 hr |
Nearby
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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.