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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2016, 3:21 PM CDT for Ellsworth 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
- Aug 30, 2016, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Ellsworth County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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
- 129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
157
WWUS83 KICT 302021
SPSICT
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
321 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016
KSZ033-048-302045-
ELLSWORTH KS-LINCOLN KS-
321 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
TRACKING SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR LINCOLN...TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ELLSWORTH...TO NEAR BUSHTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG
WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ELLSWORTH...WILSON...KANOPOLIS...LINCOLN...HOLYROOD...GENESEO...
BEVERLY...LORRAINE...ELLSWORTH AIRPORT...
WESTFALL AND KANOPOLIS LAKE.
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 3896 9793 3852 9807 3852 9848 3895 9848
3914 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 238DEG 4KT 3902 9810 3883 9831 3855 9840
$$
KLEINSASSERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Aug 29, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Neosho | 51 min |
| Aug 30, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 28 min |
| Aug 30, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Rice | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 3:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 4 hr |
| Aug 30, 3:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 53 min |
| Aug 30, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 53 min |
| Aug 30, 5:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey | 55 min |
| Aug 30, 5:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 54 min |
| Aug 30, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey | 56 min |
| Aug 30, 6:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 6:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 62 min |
| Aug 30, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
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.