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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

September 27, 2012Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Sep 27, 2012, 12:07 AM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
Sep 27, 2012, 12:07 AM MDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired
Sep 27, 2012, 12:30 AM MDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2012-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 294 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2012-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 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.

183 
WWUS83 KGLD 270607
SPSGLD

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1207 AM MDT THU SEP 27 2012

KSZ027-270630-
WALLACE-
1207 AM MDT THU SEP 27 2012

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

AT 1205 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WESKAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3895 10202 3881 10171 3869 10184 3869 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0607Z 305DEG 14KT 3881 10198

$$

MENTZER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson60 min
Sep 26, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson30 min
Sep 26, 6:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne36 min
Sep 26, 6:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson34 min
Sep 26, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson55 min
Sep 26, 7:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson37 min
Sep 26, 7:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne28 min
Sep 26, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson61 min
Sep 26, 8:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne66 min
Sep 26, 9:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne30 min
Sep 26, 9:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne47 min
Sep 26, 10:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne31 min
Sep 26, 11:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson60 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.