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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

June 17, 2012Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 17, 2012, 1:57 AM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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 17, 2012, 1:57 AM CDT (06:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2012, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 809 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 17, 12:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 12:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 5:56 PM CDT, 8 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
556 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-172100-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
556 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER
SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS EVENING...WITH MORE ACTIVITY
POSSIBLY MOVING IN LATER TONIGHT. WHILE THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER IS DIMINISHING...A FEW ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS REMAIN
POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING...CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS...ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. THE SEVERE THREAT SHOULD
DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

A FEW ISOLATED HIT-AND-MISS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE
OVER EASTERN KANSAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON...BUT MOST LOCATIONS SHOULD
REMAIN DRY.

AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES MAY APPROACH 100 DEGREES WEST OF INTERSTATE
135 SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY APPROACHING SEVERITY...ARE STILL
SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN CENTRAL KANSAS LATE WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON...WITH CHANCES POSSIBLY LINGERING THROUGH FRIDAY
AREAWIDE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH LATE EVENING
OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 9:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
932 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

KSZ091-170300-
HARPER-
932 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012

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

AT 928 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MANCHESTER...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF
ANTHONY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

DIME 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.

PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN HARPER COUNTY...SHOULD MONITOR THE
WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED IF THE STORM
MAINTAINS INTENSITY AND MOVES INTO THE AREA. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER
IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS.

&&

LAT...LON 3708 9811 3710 9780 3700 9780 3699 9812
      3700 9813
TIME...MOT...LOC 0231Z 213DEG 16KT 3697 9799

MCGUIRE

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 1:57 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	28 min
Jun 16, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	39 min
Jun 17, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	37 min

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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.