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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

June 21, 2012Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2012, 12:22 AM CDT for Butler 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 21, 2012, 12:22 AM CDT (05:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2012, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 20, 11:48 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 11:48 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 9:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
939 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-220245-
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-
939 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT...LIKELY MOST
WIDESPREAD GENERALLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 135. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
ANTICIPATED...ALTHOUGH THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY MAY PRODUCE SMALL
HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER ACROSS MAINLY SOUTH
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS ON THURSDAY. A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL
BE POSSIBLE NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER.

HOT TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY
NEXT WEEK. AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO HOVER NEAR
100 DEGREES ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA FROM SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT.

&&

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

KED/BILLINGS/ADK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
644 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0620 PM     HAIL             1 S RUSSELL             38.87N 98.85W
06/20/2012  E1.25 INCH       RUSSELL            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED HAIL LASTING FOR 20 MINUTES AND
            MIXED WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN.

&&

SGS

Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
748 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0746 PM     HAIL             NNW SUSANK              38.64N 98.78W
06/20/2012  E1.50 INCH       BARTON             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

SGS

Local storm report, Jun 20, 8:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
819 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0817 PM     HAIL             4 NNE HOISINGTON        38.57N 98.74W
06/20/2012  E1.50 INCH       BARTON             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

SGS

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 10:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1017 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

KSZ052-210415-
MARION-
1017 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2012

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

AT 1012 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TAMPA...OR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MARION...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3853 9694 3852 9682 3823 9700 3848 9729
      3861 9711 3861 9694
TIME...MOT...LOC 0317Z 310DEG 20KT 3849 9712

SMITH

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:22 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 20, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	59 min
Jun 20, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	23 min
Jun 20, 10:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	58 min
Jun 20, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	61 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.