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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 31, 200817 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 31, 2008, 3:41 PM CDT for 17 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 1, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 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 31, 2008, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 1, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 5, 2008, 7:02 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

All 24 counties

Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 30, 6:27 PM CDT, 21 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 6:27 PM CDT, 21 hours 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 11:53 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more	9 hr
Jul 31, 3:41 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 28 more	4 days

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Missouri, 2008 Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2008 Every excessive heat warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.