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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 2, 2023Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2023, 3:47 AM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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 2, 2023, 3:47 AM CDT (08:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2023, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 2975 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 21.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 9:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	23 min
Aug 2, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	65 min
Aug 2, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice, Saline	45 min
Aug 2, 3:11 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	ICT	Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 9 more	30 hr
Aug 2, 3:11 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	Barton, Butler, Chase, Ellsworth, Greenwood, Harper and 11 more	30 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2023 Every special weather statement in 2023

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.