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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

August 8, 2023Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2023, 1:57 AM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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: Aug 8, 2023, 1:57 AM CDT (06:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2023, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 40

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 7, 11:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 11:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 10:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 7, 10:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 11:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 8, 12:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 8, 1:07 AM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:27 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:57 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	28 min
Aug 7, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	58 min
Aug 7, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	54 min
Aug 7, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	3 hr
Aug 7, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas	51 min
Aug 7, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	62 min
Aug 7, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Wallace	79 min
Aug 7, 7:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	14 min
Aug 7, 7:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman	3 hr
Aug 7, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove	37 min
Aug 7, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	34 min
Aug 7, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	61 min
Aug 7, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita	70 min
Aug 7, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	24 min
Aug 7, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	30 min
Aug 7, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	31 min
Aug 7, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	58 min
Aug 7, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	37 min
Aug 7, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	27 min
Aug 7, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	33 min
Aug 7, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	23 min
Aug 8, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	33 min
Aug 8, 2:55 AM CDT	Flood Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	3 min
Aug 8, 2:58 AM CDT	Flood Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	25 hr
Aug 7, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	21 min
Aug 7, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	60 min
Aug 7, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	33 min
Aug 7, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	25 min
Aug 8, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	64 min
Aug 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	46 min
Aug 8, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	37 min
Aug 8, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Yuma	93 min
Aug 8, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	32 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.