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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

May 19, 2012Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2012, 10:21 PM CDT for Cowley 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: May 19, 2012, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2012, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 1730 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

688 
WWUS83 KICT 200321
SPSICT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1021 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012

KSZ093-200345-
COWLEY-
1021 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012

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

AT 1019 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OXFORD...OR 8
MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 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 3712 9715 3733 9715 3743 9666 3711 9660
TIME...MOT...LOC 0321Z 256DEG 34KT 3723 9708

$$

LAWSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sumner	46 min
May 19, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	49 min
May 19, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	37 min
May 19, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	34 min
May 19, 8:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	25 min
May 19, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	35 min
May 19, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	46 min
May 19, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	39 min
May 19, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	28 min
May 19, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	28 min
May 19, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	34 min
May 19, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	28 min
May 19, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	28 min
May 19, 10:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	34 min
May 19, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	27 min
May 20, 12:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	29 min
May 20, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	60 min
May 20, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	59 min
May 20, 1:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	30 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.