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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

March 16, 2021Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Mar 16, 2021, 10:21 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 16, 2021, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 2021, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2021-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2021-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 331 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
331 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
519 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

375 
WWUS83 KICT 170321
SPSICT

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
1021 PM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021
 
KSZ082-091-170345-
Harper KS-Kingman KS-
1021 PM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Significant Weather Advisory for...
  Northwestern Harper County in south central Kansas...
  Southeastern Kingman County in south central Kansas...

* Until 1045 PM CDT.

* At 1018 PM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were
  tracking a strong thunderstorm 6 miles northeast of Attica...moving
  north at 35 mph.

* Hail up to the size of dimes will be possible with this storm.

* Locations impacted include...
  Harper, Attica, Spivey, Rago and Crystal Springs. 

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 300 AM CDT for
south central Kansas.

LAT...LON 3725 9801 3725 9825 3751 9825 3750 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 0321Z 189DEG 29KT 3731 9814 

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 8:31 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTCowley, Sumner47 hr
Mar 16, 10:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTKingman34 min
Mar 16, 11:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarper49 min
Mar 16, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno, Sedgwick53 min
Mar 16, 11:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner27 min
Mar 16, 11:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSedgwick32 min
Mar 17, 12:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSedgwick33 min
Mar 17, 12:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler29 min
Mar 17, 12:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTReno28 min
Mar 17, 12:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSedgwick26 min
Mar 17, 12:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarper23 min
Mar 17, 12:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTKingman31 min
Mar 17, 12:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTMarion29 min
Mar 17, 1:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTCowley28 min
Mar 17, 1:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarper24 min
Mar 17, 1:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner23 min
Mar 17, 1:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner37 min
Mar 17, 2:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSedgwick34 min
Mar 17, 2:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTCowley51 min
Mar 17, 3:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua53 min
Mar 17, 4:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLabette, Montgomery63 min
Mar 17, 8:33 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTSumner27 hr
Mar 17, 10:16 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTCherokee, Labette4 days
Mar 17, 10:16 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTNeosho3 days
Mar 17, 10:16 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTAllen, Neosho58 hr
Mar 17, 10:16 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTAllen39 hr
Mar 17, 10:16 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTLabette, Neosho4 days
Mar 17, 11:57 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTWilson20 hr
Mar 17, 12:01 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTMontgomery, Wilson4 hr
Mar 17, 2:42 PM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryICTAllen, Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Harvey, Marion and 2 more12 hr
Mar 17, 3:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua32 min
Mar 17, 3:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTWilson46 min
Mar 17, 4:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLabette24 min
Mar 17, 4:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler, Chase, Sedgwick, Sumner48 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.