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Special Weather Statement, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2012, 5:59 PM CDT for Miami 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
- Jul 29, 2012, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
County Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2394 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 29, 3:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 5:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
559 PM CDT SUN JUL 29 2012
KSZ057-292330-
MIAMI KS-
559 PM CDT SUN JUL 29 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN MIAMI COUNTY UNTIL
630 PM CDT...
AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RANTOUL...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
OSAWATOMIE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
OSAWATOMIE AND BEAGLE.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3852 9507 3864 9507 3864 9506 3856 9490
3847 9493 3840 9496 3839 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 300DEG 15KT 3856 9509
DUXThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 10:21 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | EAX | Bates, Henry | 21 hr |
| Jul 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EAX | Linn | 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.