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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2021, 2:20 PM CDT for Barton County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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
- Jun 1, 2021, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2021, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
738
WWUS83 KICT 011920
SPSICT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
220 PM CDT Tue Jun 1 2021
KSZ047-050-012015-
Rice KS-Barton KS-
220 PM CDT Tue Jun 1 2021
The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a
* Significant Weather Advisory for...
Rice County in central Kansas...
Barton County in central Kansas...
* Until 315 PM CDT.
* At 214 PM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were
tracking cold air funnels near Lyons...moving southwest at 5 mph.
Conditions continue to favor the potential for cold air funnels as
storms develop; however, at this time it is unknown which if any
storm would produce a cold air funnel.
Any cold air funnell that develops are expected to stay aloft or
pose little if any threat.
* Locations impacted include...
Great Bend, Lyons, Hoisington, Sterling, Ellinwood, Claflin, Little
River, Chase, Bushton, Geneseo, Albert, Alden, Olmitz, Raymond,
Galatia, Susank, Frederick, Great Bend Airport, Cheyenne Bottoms
and Silica.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
The storms are not expected to become severe.
&&
LAT...LON 3869 9848 3852 9849 3851 9794 3819 9794
3819 9844 3827 9847 3827 9902 3870 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 064DEG 5KT 3841 9823
$$
KETCHAMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 54 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.