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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

October 13, 2012Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Oct 13, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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
Oct 13, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 2012, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 12:00Z on 2012-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2012-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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.

497 
WWUS83 KGLD 132321
SPSGLD

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
621 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012

KSZ013-014-028-132345-
LOGAN-SHERMAN-THOMAS-
621 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...SHERMAN
COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BREWSTER...MOVING SOUTH 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 3915 10099 3902 10140 3936 10149 3943 10123
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 338DEG 22KT 3930 10137

$$

BULLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 3:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace47 min
Oct 13, 4:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne52 min
Oct 13, 5:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDThomas50 min
Oct 13, 5:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne32 min
Oct 13, 5:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDThomas52 min
Oct 13, 6:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne28 min
Oct 13, 3:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy50 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.