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Heat Advisory 17, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 7, 20117 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this heat advisory at Aug 7, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 7, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 7, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 7, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2011-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2320 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2011-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
2320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Aug 7, 3:27 AM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:27 AM CDT, 33 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 8:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCTrego38 min
Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Stevens45 min
Aug 7, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant38 min
Aug 7, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell, Stevens42 min
Aug 7, 5:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney44 min
Aug 7, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray, Haskell39 min
Aug 7, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Meade46 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Kansas, 2011Every heat advisory in 2011

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.