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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO

July 29, 200634 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 29, 2006, 1:03 PM CDT for 34 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 30, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 2006, 1:03 PM CDT (18:03 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 30, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 2, 2006, 6:54 PM CDT
In force
3 days
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
All 37 counties

Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2006-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 291 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2006-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -73 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
291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 excessive heat warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 29, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
100 PM CDT SAT JUL 29 2006

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-301100-
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON-
ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS-
LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON-
LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE-
TANEY-OZARK-OREGON-
100 PM CDT SAT JUL 29 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI
OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

  WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

  ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING...
    WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.

  AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

  ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN
  MISSOURI OZARKS GENERALLY EAST OF AN OSAGE BEACH TO GAINESVILLE
  LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

  DISCUSSION:

  INSTABILITY WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AS
  TEMPERATURES RISE BACK INTO THE LOW TO MID 90S.  HIGHER
  MOISTURE OVER THE EASTERN MISSOURI OZARKS ALONG WITH
  RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THIS MORNINGS THUNDERSTORMS
  WILL ALLOW FOR A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP
  THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

  STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL QUICKLY BECOME STRONG WITH TORRENTIAL
  RAINFALL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE.

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

  HEAT INDICES WILL ONCE AGAIN RISE INTO THE 100 TO 107 DEGREE
  RANGE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS ACROSS THE MISSOURI
  OZARKS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS DURING THE SUNDAY THROUGH
  WEDNESDAY TIME FRAME.  A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE INTO THE
  AREA LATE WEDNESDAY AND WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS
  BACK TO THE REGION LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

  DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...
  SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH
OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE)

LINDENBERG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFOzark31 min
Jul 29, 3:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFOzark6 hr
Jul 29, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDent66 min

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Missouri, 2006Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2006Every excessive heat warning in 2006

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.