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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

June 14, 2012Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2012, 7:37 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 14, 2012, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 2789 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.8

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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 Jun 14, 6:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 6:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 4:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:37 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
737 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012

KSZ032-033-047-150130-
BARTON-LINCOLN-RUSSELL-
737 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BARTON...LINCOLN AND RUSSELL COUNTIES...

AT 733 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 43 MILES NORTH OF
HUNTER TO 16 MILES NORTH OF NATOMA TO 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF
VICTORIA...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 75 MPH ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS.

PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN BARTON...NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN AND RUSSELL
COUNTIES...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. A WARNING
MAY BE NEEDED IF THE LINE OF STORMS MAINTAINS INTENSITY AND MOVES
INTO THE AREA. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS.

&&

LAT...LON 3922 9823 3885 9874 3855 9904 3913 9904
      3914 9850 3923 9849
TIME...MOT...LOC 0036Z 339DEG 25KT 3980 9864 3940 9905
          3905 9946

MCGUIRE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Lincoln, Russell	60 min
Jun 14, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton, Lincoln	54 min
Jun 14, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice, Saline	41 min
Jun 14, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman, McPherson, Marion, Reno	40 min
Jun 14, 10:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Chase, Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner	56 min
Jun 14, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Greenwood, Sedgwick, Sumner	59 min
Jun 15, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Elk, Greenwood	32 min
Jun 15, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	28 min
Jun 15, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	32 min
Jun 15, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk, Wilson, Woodson	33 min
Jun 15, 1:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua	41 min
Jun 15, 1:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	48 min
Jun 15, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	51 min
Jun 15, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	32 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.