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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2021, 2:28 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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 26, 2021, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2021, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 2211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
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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 May 26, 12:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 12:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 26, 2:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 25, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 24 min |
| May 25, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 25 min |
| May 25, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 29 min |
| May 26, 5:44 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 5 more | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 44 min |
| May 26, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 39 min |
| May 26, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 43 min |
| May 26, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 36 min |
| May 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 32 min |
| May 26, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Russell | 41 min |
| May 26, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 63 min |
| May 26, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 49 min |
| May 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 32 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Russell | 46 min |
| May 26, 4:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 26 hr |
| May 26, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 47 min |
| May 26, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 44 min |
| May 26, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 29 min |
| May 26, 5:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 17 hr |
| May 26, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth | 28 min |
| May 26, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 54 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 26 min |
| May 26, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 35 min |
| May 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 46 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.