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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 23, 20104 counties in Missouri; Madison County, Monroe County, Saint Clair County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 23, 2010, 3:57 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri; Madison County, Monroe County, Saint Clair County, Illinois. It was in force for 40 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
Jul 23, 2010, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
40 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO

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

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 341 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 2010-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2664 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 00:00Z on 2010-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 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
2664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.5
Supercell composite
9.9

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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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 23, 3:14 AM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:14 AM CDT, 43 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.