Alert archive / Kansas / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 10:52 PM CDT for Barton County, Reno County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Aug 3, 2012, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS83 KICT 040352
SPSICT
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1052 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012
KSZ047-050-067-040430-
BARTON-RENO-RICE-
1052 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BARTON...RENO AND RICE COUNTIES...
AT 1048 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF LARNED TO 5 MILES NORTH OF ST. JOHN
TO IUKA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
WINDS TO 45 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
&&
LAT...LON 3850 9901 3851 9794 3773 9794 3774 9845
3824 9847 3825 9848 3827 9902
TIME...MOT...LOC 0351Z 239DEG 38KT 3831 9910 3809 9872
3779 9872
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:27 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 23 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno, Rice | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 12:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 1:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 39 min |
Nearby
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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.