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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 75 min |
| Jul 3, 1:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln | 29 min |
| Jul 3, 2:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, Saline | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 60 min |
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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.