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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 9, 2011, 3:40 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 9, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2011, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 9, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 Jul 9, 3:28 AM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:28 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:40 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 41 hr |
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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.