Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 min |
| Sep 26, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 30 min |
| Sep 26, 6:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 36 min |
| Sep 26, 6:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Sep 26, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 55 min |
| Sep 26, 7:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 37 min |
| Sep 26, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 28 min |
| Sep 26, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Sep 26, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 66 min |
| Sep 26, 9:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 30 min |
| Sep 26, 9:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Sep 26, 10:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 31 min |
| Sep 26, 11:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.