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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

June 18, 2013Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2013, 3:11 PM CDT for Graham 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: Jun 18, 2013, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1285 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 18, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 11:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:15 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
115 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013

KSZ004-182000-
NORTON-
215 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 214 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CALVERT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3986 9963 3959 9964 3980 10000 3996 9989
TIME...MOT...LOC 1916Z 304DEG 6KT 3981 9980

DLF

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:11 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
211 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013

KSZ004-016-182045-
GRAHAM-NORTON-
311 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND GRAHAM
COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM EDMOND TO DENSMORE
TO LOGAN...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3940 9997 3971 10003 3971 9973 3970 9962
      3957 9962 3956 9960 3940 9959
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 351DEG 13KT 3962 9989 3962 9971
          3960 9951

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	24 min
Jun 17, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	63 min
Jun 17, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	60 min
Jun 17, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	32 min
Jun 18, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	45 min
Jun 18, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	50 min
Jun 18, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	34 min
Jun 18, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	38 min
Jun 18, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	64 min
Jun 18, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	39 min
Jun 18, 5:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Graham	3 hr
Jun 18, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	32 min
Jun 18, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	34 min
Jun 17, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	29 min
Jun 17, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	33 min
Jun 17, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	39 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.