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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

May 20, 2019Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 20, 2019, 10:13 AM CDT for Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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: May 20, 2019, 10:13 AM CDT (15:13 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2019, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Harper County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 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 May 20, 5:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 20, 5:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 20, 7:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 20, 9:52 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 20, 10:13 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 9:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	26 hr
May 20, 9:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	12 days
May 20, 9:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	13 days
May 20, 9:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho	14 days
May 20, 9:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	21 days
May 20, 9:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Labette	16 days
May 20, 9:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	66 hr
May 20, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	66 hr
May 20, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	23 min
May 20, 9:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	24 hr
May 20, 9:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	4 days
May 20, 10:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	56 hr
May 20, 1:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	27 min
May 20, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno	52 min
May 20, 1:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	26 min
May 20, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	30 min
May 20, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	50 min
May 20, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	31 min
May 20, 2:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	5 days
May 20, 2:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey	9 days
May 20, 2:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	7 days
May 20, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick	26 min
May 20, 2:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	8 days
May 20, 2:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	11 days
May 20, 2:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	11 days
May 20, 2:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman	4 days
May 20, 2:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	65 hr
May 20, 2:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	4 days
May 20, 2:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	58 hr
May 20, 2:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	66 hr
May 20, 2:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 7 more	21 hr
May 20, 2:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	10 days
May 20, 2:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	55 hr
May 20, 2:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	10 days
May 20, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Reno	15 days
May 20, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Reno, Sedgwick	16 days
May 20, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	8 days
May 20, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	9 days
May 20, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	21 days
May 20, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	21 days
May 20, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	54 hr
May 20, 2:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	59 hr
May 20, 2:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase	7 days
May 20, 2:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase, Lyon	8 days
May 20, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	26 min
May 20, 3:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Reno, Rice and 2 more	24 hr
May 20, 3:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	2 hr
May 20, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	31 min
May 20, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	26 min
May 20, 3:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Marion and 3 more	7 hr
May 20, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	30 min
May 20, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	32 min
May 20, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	30 min
May 20, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	28 min
May 20, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	26 min
May 20, 5:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	17 hr
May 20, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	30 min
May 20, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	26 min
May 20, 6:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood	4 hr
May 20, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery, Wilson	41 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.