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Heat Advisory 1, NWS St. Louis, MO

August 11, 2005Saint Charles County, Saint Louis County, City of Saint Louis, Missouri; Madison County, Saint Clair County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this heat advisory at Aug 11, 2005, 8:36 AM CDT for Saint Charles County, Saint Louis County, City of Saint Louis, Missouri; Madison County, Saint Clair County, Illinois. It took effect at Aug 11, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 11, 2005, 8:36 AM CDT (13:36 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 11, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 11, 2005, 3:46 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO

Counties Madison County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, City of Saint Louis, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 216 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2005-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 757 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2005-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
757 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Aug 11, 3:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 3:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
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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.