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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 31, 2016Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 31, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT for Neosho 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 31, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

County Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 321 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2016-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 850 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2016-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
850 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 7:24 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTButler6 hr
Aug 30, 7:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTNeosho31 min
Aug 30, 7:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLabette54 min
Aug 30, 8:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTGreenwood59 min
Aug 30, 8:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTNeosho67 min
Aug 30, 9:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTGreenwood63 min
Aug 30, 9:40 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTGreenwood6 hr
Aug 30, 11:43 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTReno16 hr
Aug 31, 5:53 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTLabette6 hr
Aug 31, 7:15 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTEllsworth5 hr
Aug 31, 7:58 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTLincoln13 hr
Aug 31, 8:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTMcPherson55 min
Aug 31, 9:03 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTMcPherson, Saline12 hr
Aug 31, 11:53 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler52 min
Aug 31, 12:15 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTEllsworth8 hr
Aug 31, 12:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua, Elk58 min
Aug 31, 1:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLincoln30 min
Aug 31, 1:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLincoln, Russell60 min
Aug 31, 1:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua26 min
Aug 31, 3:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSaline23 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.