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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

May 16, 2021Ellsworth County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2021, 3:00 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 16, 2021, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2021, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

County Ellsworth County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 12:00Z on 2021-05-16Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2021-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 204 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

494 
WWUS83 KICT 162000
SPSICT

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
300 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021
 
KSZ048-162045-
Ellsworth KS-
300 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Significant Weather Advisory for...
  Central Ellsworth County in central Kansas...

* Until 345 PM CDT.

* At 259 PM CDT...National Weather Service Doppler radar was 
  tracking a strong thunderstorm with very heavy rainfall over 
  Kanopolis... moving east at 5 mph.

hail up to the size of dimes...and wind gusts up to 55 mph will be 
possible with this storm.

* Locations impacted include...
  Ellsworth, Kanopolis, Ellsworth Airport, Kanopolis State Park and
  Kanopolis Lake.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Be prepared to take shelter in the event the storms intensify and
become severe...or a warning is issued by the National Weather
Service.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3863 9835 3884 9835 3884 9794 3863 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 273DEG 5KT 3874 9813 

$$

Martin

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 7:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner60 min
May 15, 9:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner57 min
May 15, 10:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler55 min
May 15, 11:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLincoln58 min
May 15, 11:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTEllsworth57 min
May 15, 11:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Greenwood66 min
May 15, 11:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTWoodson63 min
May 15, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood, Wilson, Woodson55 min
May 15, 11:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSedgwick55 min
May 16, 12:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTRussell63 min
May 16, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick61 min
May 16, 12:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTGreenwood28 min
May 16, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, McPherson, Marion22 min
May 16, 1:25 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln, Saline9 hr
May 16, 2:16 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTSaline8 hr
May 16, 2:43 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatICTLincoln, Saline5 hr
May 16, 7:56 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTRussell54 hr
May 16, 8:19 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTReno, Rice3 days
May 16, 9:49 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatICTRussell8 hr
May 16, 10:18 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTSaline27 hr
May 16, 10:37 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTLincoln, Saline27 hr
May 16, 1:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTMcPherson61 min
May 16, 1:46 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTMcPherson24 hr
May 16, 2:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTEllsworth51 min
May 16, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth54 min
May 16, 3:33 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTEllsworth22 hr
May 16, 4:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTEllsworth36 min
May 16, 4:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTRussell27 min
May 16, 5:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTReno28 min
May 16, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton63 min
May 16, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton18 min
May 16, 6:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTBarton34 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.