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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, 2:59 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2021, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Chase County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 12:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 4:34 AM CDT, 10 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:04 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
204 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0100 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 E BEL AIRE            37.76N 97.23W
06/25/2021                   SEDGWICK           KS   PUBLIC

            VIEWER CALLED INTO KAKE TO REPORT TWO
            UTILITY POLES WERE DOWN ALONG WITH SEVERAL
            TREE LIMBS OF UNKNOWN SIZE. TIME IS BASED ON
            RADAR.

&&

Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:22 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
222 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0151 PM     TSTM WND GST     2 SSE BURNS             38.07N 96.87W
06/25/2021  E60 MPH          BUTLER             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
256 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0225 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 WSW ELMDALE           38.36N 96.69W
06/25/2021                   CHASE              KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            DISPATCH REPORTED A SEMI ROLL OVER. TIME IS
            ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

&&

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
259 PM CDT Fri Jun 25 2021

KSZ053-252030-
Chase KS-
259 PM CDT Fri Jun 25 2021

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Significant Weather Advisory for...
  Southern Chase County in east central Kansas...

* Until 330 PM CDT.

* At 257 PM CDT...National Weather Service Doppler radar was tracking
  a strong thunderstorm with locally heavy rainfall 12 miles east of
  Burns, or 16 miles southeast of Florence...moving northeast at 25
  mph.

hail up to the size of dimes...and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be
possible with this storm.

* Locations impacted include...
  Bazaar, Matfield Green, Cedar Point and Wonsevu.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

These storms may produce ponding of water on roadways. Listen for
later statements or possible flood warnings...should the risk for
minor low-land flooding become more imminent.

&&

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for
central and east central Kansas.

LAT...LON 3827 9635 3809 9643 3809 9684 3832 9684
      3832 9635
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 228DEG 20KT 3813 9666

HOWERTON

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, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	38 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, 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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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.