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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

April 13, 2012Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 13, 2012, 9:59 PM CDT for Cowley 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: Apr 13, 2012, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2012, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 2227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 389 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 15.6

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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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Apr 13, 9:39 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 9:39 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 9:20 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 13, 7:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

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

KSZ095-140100-
WILSON-
710 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WILSON COUNTY...

AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF LONGTON...OR 21 MILES NORTHEAST
OF SEDAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

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

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 3739 9553 3738 9570 3739 9595 3769 9595
      3774 9556
TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 224DEG 36KT 3742 9594

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 7:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 7:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 8:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 9:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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

KSZ093-140330-
COWLEY-
959 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COWLEY COUNTY...

AT 956 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ARKANSAS CITY...OR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
WINFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

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

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 3699 9713 3714 9715 3737 9700 3713 9663
TIME...MOT...LOC 0300Z 221DEG 35KT 3709 9706

LAWSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	45 min
Apr 13, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	50 min
Apr 13, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	52 min
Apr 13, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	47 min
Apr 13, 9:26 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more	25 hr
Apr 13, 10:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	34 min
Apr 13, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	31 min
Apr 14, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	36 min
Apr 14, 12:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	52 min
Apr 14, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson	37 min
Apr 14, 4:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	47 min
Apr 14, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	50 min
Apr 14, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	45 min
Apr 14, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	30 min
Apr 14, 1:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	2 hr
Apr 14, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	21 min
Apr 14, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	17 min
Apr 14, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	41 min
Apr 14, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	46 min
Apr 14, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Rice	32 min
Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	34 min
Apr 14, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Saline	42 min
Apr 14, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Reno	39 min
Apr 14, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedSignificant damage threat	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	47 min
Apr 14, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	47 min
Apr 14, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedSignificant damage threat	ICT	Saline	41 min
Apr 14, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	44 min
Apr 14, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedSignificant damage threat	ICT	Saline	13 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.