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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

April 4, 2012Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2012, 8:08 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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: Apr 4, 2012, 8:08 AM CDT (13:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2012, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	49 min
Apr 4, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	29 min
Apr 4, 6:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	112 min
Apr 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman	2 hr

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.