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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 4, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
County Labette County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 917 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
054
WWUS83 KICT 042321
SPSICT
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
621 PM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012
KSZ100-050000-
LABETTE-
621 PM CDT SAT AUG 4 2012
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LABETTE COUNTY...
AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF BARTLETT...OR 8 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CHETOPA...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
WINDS 50 TO 55 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 3699 9508 3699 9534 3705 9535 3714 9507
3706 9506 3700 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 253DEG 18KT 3697 9524
$$
JAKUBThe 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, 10:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton, Reno, Rice | 38 min |
| 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 |
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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.