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Heat Advisory 10, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this heat advisory at Aug 3, 2012, 3:19 PM CDT for 12 counties in Missouri; Linn County, Miami County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 4, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2012, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 4, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
Counties Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Aug 2, 6:23 PM CDT, 20 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:23 PM CDT, 20 hours 56 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.