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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

September 30, 2012Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Sep 30, 2012, 3:14 PM CDT for Thomas 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: Sep 30, 2012, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 340 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 881 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 Sep 30, 2:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 2:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 11:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 30, 3:14 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
214 PM MDT SUN SEP 30 2012

KSZ014-302045-
THOMAS-
314 PM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 308 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTH OF COLBY...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3929 10084 3922 10111 3957 10123 3957 10098
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 342DEG 20KT 3952 10109

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 30, 4:40 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Gove, Greeley, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more	5 hr
Sep 30, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	29 min
Sep 30, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	24 min
Sep 30, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	26 min
Sep 30, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	43 min
Sep 30, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	34 min
Sep 30, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Scott	30 min
Sep 30, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	34 min
Sep 30, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	27 min
Sep 30, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
Sep 30, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	37 min
Sep 30, 8:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	24 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.