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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Oct 13, 2012, 3:11 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 13, 2012, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 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 20:14 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
975
WWUS83 KICT 132011
SPSICT
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
311 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012
KSZ091-092-132045-
HARPER-SUMNER-
311 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HARPER AND SUMNER COUNTIES...
AT 309 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BLUFF CITY...OR 7 MILES EAST OF ANTHONY...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...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 3700 9807 3739 9783 3739 9781 3743 9781
3747 9779 3746 9737 3700 9762
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 219DEG 47KT 3715 9787
$$
JAKUBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 8:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 10:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 47 min |
| Oct 13, 11:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 66 min |
| Oct 13, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 28 min |
| Oct 13, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 56 min |
| Oct 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 51 min |
| Oct 13, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 46 min |
| Oct 13, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 26 min |
| Oct 13, 4:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 17 min |
| Oct 13, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 24 min |
| Oct 13, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 26 min |
| Oct 13, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Oct 13, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 22 min |
| Oct 13, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 32 min |
| Oct 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 15 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.