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Heat Advisory 5, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 25, 2006Saint 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 Jul 25, 2006, 3:33 PM CDT for Saint Charles County, Saint Louis County, City of Saint Louis, Missouri; Madison County, Saint Clair County, Illinois. It took effect at Jul 26, 2006, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 2006, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 26, 2006, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 26, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
8 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 20:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 329 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2006-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 105 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2006-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.