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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 16, 2011, 4:16 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 16, 2011, 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 16, 2011, 4:16 AM CDT (09:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 16, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 16, 4:13 AM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 4:13 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1054 AM MDT FRI JUL 15 2011 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-161645- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1054 AM MDT FRI JUL 15 2011 /1154 AM CDT FRI JUL 15 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND GRADUALLY INCREASE IN COVERAGE DURING THE EVENING. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...ISOLATED OCCURRENCES OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOT TEMPERATURES WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY AND PERSIST THROUGH AT LEAST TUESDAY. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES IN EXCESS OF 100 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES APPROACHING 105. AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IS IN EFFECT SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...EAST OF A TRENTON TO HOXIE LINE. HOT AND DRY WEATHER WILL ALSO INCREASE THE FIRE DANGER ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE TRI STATE AREA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THOSE WITH OUTDOOR BURNING PLANS THIS WEEKEND SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 15, 11:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 52 min |
| Jul 15, 7:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 25 min |
| Jul 15, 7:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 35 min |
Nearby
Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2011Excessive Heat Warnings in Nebraska, 2011Every excessive heat warning 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.