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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

June 30, 2012Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2012, 5:05 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 30, 2012, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

County Republic County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 2166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -379 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1258 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 30, 3:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
326 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2012

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-012030-
REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-
POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-
WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON-
326 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS EVENING INTO
TONIGHT FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM MINNEAPOLIS TO
HIAWATHA. THE PRIMARY THUNDERSTORM HAZARD WILL BE STRONG AND
GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THE RANGELAND FIRE DANGER WILL BE VERY HIGH ONCE AGAIN ACROSS
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ON SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

BLAIR

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 5:05 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	24 min
Jun 30, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	26 min
Jun 30, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Cloud, Washington	48 min
Jun 30, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Riley	39 min
Jun 30, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	52 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.