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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS St. Louis, MO

August 3, 200815 counties in Missouri; Madison County, Monroe County, Saint Clair County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 3, 2008, 4:07 AM CDT for 15 counties in Missouri; Madison County, Monroe County, Saint Clair County, Illinois. It took effect at Aug 3, 2008, 2:52 PM CDT. It was in force for 52 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 2008, 4:07 AM CDT (09:07 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 3, 2008, 2:52 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 5, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
52 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO

Counties Madison County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Cole County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Osage County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 346 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 00:00Z on 2008-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2008-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 4:07 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryLSXAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 21 more63 hr

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Missouri, 2008Excessive Heat Warnings in Illinois, 2008Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.