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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Sep 3, 2012, 5:59 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- Sep 3, 2012, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
County Dickinson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Sep 3, 3:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 3:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 3, 3:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 332 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2012 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-042045- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 332 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES TODAY WILL COMMONLY BE NEAR 100 TO AROUND 105 DEGREES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA THURSDAY THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 5:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
559 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2012
KSZ035-032330-
DICKINSON-
559 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY...
THROUGH 630 PM CDT...A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS CLUSTER OF
STORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE CARLTON...ABILENE
AIRPORT...WOODBINE...HOPE AND HERINGTON.
&&
LAT...LON 3891 9737 3889 9694 3861 9693 3860 9701
3860 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 242DEG 16KT 3861 9729Nearby
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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.