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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

July 7, 2012Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2012, 6:39 PM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 7, 2012, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2012, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 1058 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 Jul 7, 3:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 3:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:16 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:28 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
628 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 2012

KSZ047-080000-
BARTON-
628 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 2012

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

AT 625 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OLMITZ...OR 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT
BEND. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 9904 3870 9894 3869 9875 3842 9882
      3843 9904 3847 9904
TIME...MOT...LOC 2329Z 108DEG 2KT 3858 9895

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:39 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
639 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 2012

KSZ096-080015-
NEOSHO-
639 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 2012

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

AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ST. PAUL...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
PARSONS...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

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 3738 9509 3741 9538 3768 9528 3761 9508
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 113DEG 7KT 3750 9510

JAKUB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	23 min
Jul 7, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	27 min
Jul 7, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	29 min
Jul 7, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	32 min
Jul 7, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	30 min

Nearby

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.