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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

June 23, 2012Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2012, 1:13 AM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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 23, 2012, 1:13 AM CDT (06:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2012, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -383 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 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 23, 12:47 AM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 12:47 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 3:56 PM CDT, 9 hours 17 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
256 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-231200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
256 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012 /356 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2012/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EAST ALONG THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS
BORDER REGION OVERNIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREATS.

WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH
TONIGHT. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE WEST OF HIGHWAY 25 THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING WITH SOUTH WINDS BETWEEN 30 AND
35 MPH
GUSTING TO AROUND 45 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

VERY HOT CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE PERIOD. HIGH TEMPERATURES
OF 100 TO 110 ARE EXPECTED WITH THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURES ON SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT
AND THURSDAY. AT THIS TIME...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT.

DR/BULLER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 8:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
718 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012

COZ090-230145-
YUMA COUNTY-
718 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...

AT 716 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF CLARKVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

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

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 4044 10233 4040 10230 4029 10279 4031 10280
      4035 10280 4036 10279 4044 10279 4044 10278
TIME...MOT...LOC 0119Z 250DEG 22KT 4040 10271

FOLTZ

Local storm report, Jun 22, 8:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
746 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0735 PM     HAIL             CLARKVILLE              40.38N 102.62W
06/22/2012  E1.00 INCH       YUMA               CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

JMARTIN

Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
816 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0755 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     3 SE CLARKVILLE         40.35N 102.58W
06/22/2012                   YUMA               CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CJS

Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
818 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0812 PM     HAIL             12 NW WAUNETA           40.42N 102.40W
06/22/2012  E1.75 INCH       YUMA               CO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

JMARTIN

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 1:13 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
Jun 23, 11:30 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	GLD	Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	9 hr
Jun 22, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	27 min
Jun 22, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	50 min
Jun 22, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	52 min
Jun 22, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	7 min
Jun 22, 9:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	16 min
Jun 22, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	62 min
Jun 22, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	52 min
Jun 22, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	47 min
Jun 22, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	30 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nebraska, 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.