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Excessive Heat Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 4, 2011, 3:54 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 5, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 28 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 4, 2011, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 5, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2011, 3:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 658 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Aug 4, 3:13 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 3:13 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 10:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 9 hr |
| Aug 3, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, Marion | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 35 min |
Nearby
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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.