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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

June 4, 2012Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2012, 1:18 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 4, 2012, 1:18 PM MDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2012, 1:45 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 3395 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Jun 4, 12:45 PM MDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 12:45 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 10:39 AM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:18 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
118 PM MDT MON JUN 4 2012

KSZ041-041945-
GREELEY-
118 PM MDT MON JUN 4 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 116 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HORACE...MOVING NORTHWEST
AT 15 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3826 10205 3861 10205 3864 10204 3864 10203
      3851 10168 3826 10168 3826 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 117DEG 12KT 3839 10200

LOCKHART

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	58 min
Jun 4, 2:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	28 min
Jun 4, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	29 min
Jun 4, 2:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	23 min
Jun 4, 4:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	35 min
Jun 3, 6:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	20 min
Jun 3, 6:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	17 min
Jun 3, 7:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	15 min
Jun 3, 7:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	17 min
Jun 3, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	15 min
Jun 3, 7:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	16 min
Jun 4, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	64 min
Jun 4, 2:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	36 min
Jun 4, 3:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	30 min
Jun 4, 3:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	82 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.