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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

August 25, 2012Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2012, 1:34 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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 25, 2012, 1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 25, 12:56 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 12:56 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 4:37 AM CDT, 8 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 25, 8:06 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 25, 10:29 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 1:34 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
134 PM CDT SAT AUG 25 2012

KSZ092-251900-
SUMNER-
134 PM CDT SAT AUG 25 2012

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

AT 131 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF GEUDA SPRINGS...OR 10
MILES SOUTHEAST OF WELLINGTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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. BESIDES LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS...THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE
BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUDS. THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS SHOULD REMAIN ABOVE THE
GROUND.

&&

LAT...LON 3708 9734 3722 9742 3735 9716 3734 9715
      3713 9715
TIME...MOT...LOC 1833Z 233DEG 25KT 3718 9727

LAWSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	39 min
Aug 25, 6:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Chase	45 min
Aug 25, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	32 min
Aug 25, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	34 min
Aug 25, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	27 min
Aug 25, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	48 min
Aug 25, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	21 min
Aug 25, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	29 min
Aug 25, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	23 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.