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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Mar 14, 2021, 7:09 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 14, 2021, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2021, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 14, 7:06 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 7:06 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 14, 7:09 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Wichita KS 709 PM CDT Sun Mar 14 2021 KSZ067-150100- Reno KS- 709 PM CDT Sun Mar 14 2021 The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a * Significant Weather Advisory for... Southeastern Reno County in south central Kansas... * Until 800 PM CDT. * At 708 PM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were tracking a strong thunderstorm over Pretty Prairie...moving north at 25 mph. wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. * Locations impacted include... Haven, Pretty Prairie, Yoder and Cheney Lake. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... The storms are not expected to become severe. && LAT...LON 3774 9804 3800 9803 3796 9771 3773 9788 TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 201DEG 22KT 3778 9797 HOWERTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Mar 14, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 1:32 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ICT | Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 5 hr |
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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.