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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

June 25, 2021Chase County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2021, 1:37 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 25, 2021, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2021, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Chase County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -476 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 25, 12:37 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 12:37 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 4:34 AM CDT, 9 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 9:54 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:04 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:16 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:37 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 11:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	33 min
Jun 25, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	58 min
Jun 25, 12:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	24 min
Jun 25, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	28 min
Jun 25, 12:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	34 min
Jun 25, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	45 min
Jun 25, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice	35 min
Jun 25, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	59 min
Jun 25, 1:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson, Saline	49 min
Jun 25, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	26 min
Jun 25, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	29 min
Jun 25, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Marion	26 min
Jun 25, 1:54 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 12 more	65 hr
Jun 25, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	41 min
Jun 25, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	44 min
Jun 25, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	31 min
Jun 25, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	26 min
Jun 25, 3:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	61 hr
Jun 25, 3:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	32 hr
Jun 25, 3:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho	4 days
Jun 25, 3:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	5 days
Jun 25, 3:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Labette	7 days
Jun 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase, Marion	33 min
Jun 25, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	35 min
Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	69 min
Jun 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	64 min
Jun 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	32 min
Jun 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	46 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	30 min
Jun 25, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson	55 min
Jun 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Chase, Marion	5 hr
Jun 25, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	58 min
Jun 25, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	47 min
Jun 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	60 min
Jun 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	53 min
Jun 25, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Marion	55 min
Jun 25, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	66 min
Jun 25, 6:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey	4 hr

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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.