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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

April 13, 2012Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 13, 2012, 5:21 PM CDT for Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 13, 2012, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2012, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 606 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 711 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

234 
WWUS83 KICT 132221
SPSICT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
521 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

KSZ099-100-132300-
LABETTE-MONTGOMERY-
521 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LABETTE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES...

AT 516 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MONTGOMERY AND LABETTE COUNTIES...AND 
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE 
STORMS. 

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3737 9515 3701 9511 3702 9595 3738 9594
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 230DEG 32KT 3723 9582

$$

JAKUB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	23 min
Apr 13, 12:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	21 min
Apr 13, 3:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	36 min
Apr 13, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	42 min
Apr 13, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	45 min
Apr 13, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	33 min
Apr 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	45 min
Apr 13, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	42 min
Apr 13, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	41 min
Apr 13, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	45 min
Apr 13, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	43 min
Apr 13, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	26 min
Apr 13, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	48 min
Apr 13, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Woodson	40 min
Apr 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	45 min
Apr 13, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	50 min
Apr 13, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	51 min
Apr 13, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	42 min
Apr 13, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	54 min
Apr 13, 6:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	38 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.