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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2018, 12:21 AM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 20, 2018, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2018, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2016 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted.
859
WWUS83 KICT 200521
SPSICT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
1221 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2018
KSZ067-200600-
Reno KS-
1221 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2018
The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a
* Significant Weather Advisory for...
Reno County in south central Kansas...
* Until 100 AM CDT.
* At 1219 AM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were
tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 7 miles
south of Alden, to Sylvia, to near Neola...and moving
east to southeast at 35 to 45 mph.
wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible with these storms.
* Locations impacted include...
Hutchinson, South Hutchinson, Buhler, Haven, Nickerson, Pretty
Prairie, Arlington, Turon, Partridge, Sylvia, Plevna, Abbyville,
Yoder, Willowbrook, Langdon, Hutchinson Airport, Cheney State Park
and Cheney Lake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be prepared to take shelter in the event the storms intensify and
become severe...or a warning is issued by the National Weather
Service.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM CDT for
south central and central Kansas.
LAT...LON 3817 9847 3817 9822 3816 9822 3816 9815
3817 9814 3817 9770 3773 9770 3773 9846
TIME...MOT...LOC 0520Z 294DEG 38KT 3815 9835 3797 9840 3782 9856
$$
KLEINSASSERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 8:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 26 min |
| Jun 19, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 9:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln, Saline | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 74 min |
| Jun 19, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice, Russell | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 12:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 1:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 1:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 35 min |
| Jun 20, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick | 29 min |
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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.