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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

July 6, 2020Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2020, 2:25 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 6, 2020, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2020, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 287 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: 745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	31 min
Jul 6, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	36 min
Jul 6, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	36 min
Jul 6, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	27 min
Jul 6, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	36 min
Jul 6, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	32 min
Jul 6, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	44 min
Jul 6, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	26 min
Jul 6, 3:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	2 hr
Jul 6, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	31 min
Jul 6, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	28 min
Jul 6, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	37 min
Jul 6, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	25 min
Jul 6, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	30 min
Jul 6, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	33 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.