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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this heat advisory at Jun 25, 2011, 3:58 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 26, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2011, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 26, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1736 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 589 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jun 25, 3:43 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:43 PM CDT, 15 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.