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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 8, 2012Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2012, 6:17 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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 8, 2012, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2012, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 597 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -298 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 Aug 8, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 4:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
455 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-092200-
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-
455 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THE FLINT HILLS INTO
SOUTHEAST KANSAS EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH ISOLATED STORMS OVER
CENTRAL KANSAS. A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEAST
KANSAS WITH 55 TO 65 MPH WIND GUSTS THE MAIN THREAT. SOME SMALL
HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

A SECOND ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST
KANSAS LATE TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE FOR
AREAS EAST OF A LINE FROM YATES CENTER TO COFFEYVILLE. DAMAGING
DOWNBURST WINDS TO 60 MPH ARE THE MAIN THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD RETURN THIS WEEKEND...WITH
A FEW STORMS POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL KANSAS SATURDAY AFTERNOON...THEN
OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SATURDAY NIGHT. WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE THEN POSSIBLE OVER ALL AREAS FROM
SUNDAY THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY. IN EACH CASE...STRONG STORMS CAPABLE
OF SMALL HAIL AND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH MAY OCCUR.

.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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 5:24 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

KSZ093-091024-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
524 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

...BURN BAN IN EFFECT FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL AUGUST 22ND...

THE COWLEY COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HAS ISSUED A BURN BAN FOR
ALL UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL AUGUST 22ND DUE TO
VERY DRY CONDITIONS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION...PLEASE CONTACT COWLEY COUNTY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT AT 620-221-0470 OR 620-441-4569.

ADK

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 6:17 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
617 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

KSZ069-082345-
BUTLER-
617 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

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

AT 613 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF EL DORADO...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL...BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAIN...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 3772 9663 3763 9689 3794 9704 3801 9683
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 336DEG 15KT 3789 9688

KLEINSASSER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	23 min
Aug 8, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	22 min
Aug 8, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	26 min
Aug 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	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.