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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

July 31, 2021Chautauqua County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2021, 9:13 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 31, 2021, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

567 
WWUS83 KICT 010213
SPSICT

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
913 PM CDT Sat Jul 31 2021
 
KSZ093-098-099-010300-
Montgomery KS-Cowley KS-Chautauqua KS-
913 PM CDT Sat Jul 31 2021

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Significant Weather Advisory for...
  Southwestern Montgomery County in southeastern Kansas...
  Cowley County in south central Kansas...
  Chautauqua County in southeastern Kansas...

* Until 1000 PM CDT.

* At 910 PM CDT...National Weather Service Doppler radar was tracking
  strong thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall along a line
  extending from near Oxford to near Peru...and moving southeast at
  15 mph.

* Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with these storms.

* Locations impacted include...
  Arkansas City, Winfield, Coffeyville, Caney, Sedan, Udall, Cedar
  Vale, Burden, Dearing, Dexter, Tyro, Peru, Chautauqua, Havana,
  Elgin, Niotaze, Cambridge, Hale, Maple City and Winfield City 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 these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3700 9713 3747 9715 3733 9653 3730 9651
      3729 9597 3700 9561
TIME...MOT...LOC 0213Z 294DEG 12KT 3731 9711 3706 9603 

$$

METZGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	28 min
Jul 31, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	27 min
Jul 31, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	27 min
Jul 31, 8:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	51 min
Jul 31, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	34 min
Jul 31, 8:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	38 min
Jul 31, 8:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	29 min
Jul 31, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	33 min
Jul 31, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	44 min
Jul 31, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	40 min
Jul 31, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	25 min
Jul 31, 10:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	32 min
Jul 31, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	27 min

Nearby

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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.