Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2017
Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2017, 6:11 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 27, 2017, 6:11 AM CDT (11:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2017, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 300 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
- 557 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 6:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 7:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice, Saline | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 7:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 8:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Rice | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 8:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 8:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase, Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Rice | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 8:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 8:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Neosho | 59 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.