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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

July 2, 2017Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2017, 7:13 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 2, 2017, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2017, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

County Labette County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2017-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 145 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2017-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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 Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 7:13 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
713 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2017

KSZ100-030045-
Labette KS-
713 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2017

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Significant Weather Advisory for...
  Southeastern Labette County in southeastern Kansas...

* Until 745 PM CDT

* At 712 PM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were
  tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles southwest of Chetopa...
  moving northeast at 40 mph.

wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm.

* Locations impacted include...
  Oswego, Chetopa and Bartlett.

LAT...LON 3700 9544 3721 9508 3700 9508
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 245DEG 33KT 3698 9521

MCGUIRE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln, Russell75 min
Jul 3, 1:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTBarton, Ellsworth, Lincoln29 min
Jul 3, 2:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTBarton, Ellsworth, Rice, Saline55 min
Jul 3, 3:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice60 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.