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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

April 4, 2017Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2017, 6:41 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley 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

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The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2017, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2017, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 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 Apr 4, 3:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 3:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 4, 3:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 4, 5:52 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
552 PM CDT TUE APR 04 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0550 PM     HAIL             IOLA                    37.93N 95.40W
04/04/2017  M0.88 INCH       ALLEN              KS   PUBLIC

&&

BDK

Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:21 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 6:32 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
632 PM CDT TUE APR 04 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0628 PM     HAIL             6 E ARKANSAS CITY       37.07N 96.93W
04/04/2017  E1.00 INCH       COWLEY             KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            HAIL WAS NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE.

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Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:41 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
641 PM CDT TUE APR 4 2017

KSZ069-093-050030-
Butler KS-Cowley KS-
641 PM CDT TUE APR 4 2017

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Significant Weather Advisory for...
  Southern Butler County in south central Kansas...
  Northwestern Cowley County in south central Kansas...

* Until 730 PM CDT

* At 641 PM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were
  tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 5 miles
  east of Mulvane to near Burden...and moving north at 45 mph.

hail up to the size of nickels...and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be
possible with these storms.

* Locations impacted include...
  El Dorado, Andover, Augusta, Rose Hill, Douglass, Towanda, Benton,
  Udall, Leon, Burden, Atlanta, Latham, Rock, Santa Fe Lake, Augusta
  Municipal Airport, El Dorado Airport, Winfield City Lake, Beaumont,
  El Dorado State Park and El Dorado 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3791 9715 3779 9653 3756 9653 3721 9682
      3739 9715
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 201DEG 39KT 3747 9714 3726 9681

KETCHAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 2:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	37 hr
Apr 4, 2:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	72 hr
Apr 4, 2:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase, Lyon	49 hr
Apr 4, 3:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Labette	65 hr
Apr 4, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	24 min
Apr 4, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk	42 min
Apr 4, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	50 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2017 Every special weather statement in 2017

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.