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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2021, 8:21 PM CDT for Russell 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
- May 14, 2021, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2021, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted.
686 WWUS83 KICT 150121 SPSICT Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Wichita KS 821 PM CDT Fri May 14 2021 KSZ032-150145- Russell KS- 821 PM CDT Fri May 14 2021 The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a * Significant Weather Advisory for... Northwestern Russell County in central Kansas... * Until 845 PM CDT. * At 819 PM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were tracking a strong thunderstorm 8 miles northeast of Emmeram... moving northeast at 35 mph. * Dime to nickel size hail will be possible with this storm. * Locations impacted include... Paradise and Waldo. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for central Kansas. LAT...LON 3913 9904 3913 9873 3895 9904 TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 232DEG 31KT 3904 9901 $$ BUTLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 28 min |
| May 14, 9:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 28 min |
| May 14, 10:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 53 min |
| May 14, 10:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 27 min |
| May 14, 11:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 48 min |
| May 15, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 61 min |
| May 15, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 34 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.