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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Jul 25, 2012, 5:11 PM CDT for Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 25, 2012, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
County Wyandotte County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 25, 4:11 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 4:11 PM CDT, 1 hour before
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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:11 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 511 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012 KSZ103>105-252245- JOHNSON KS-LEAVENWORTH KS-WYANDOTTE KS- 511 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...AND SOUTHWESTERN WYANDOTTE AND SOUTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 545 PM CDT... AT 506 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DE SOTO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BONNER SPRINGS. LAT...LON 3912 9486 3901 9482 3896 9499 3904 9505 TIME...MOT...LOC 2211Z 239DEG 16KT 3902 9496 MJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 5:04 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EAX | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more | 14 hr |
| Jul 25, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Holt | 35 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.