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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

June 28, 2012Graham County, Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 28, 2012, 4:29 AM CDT for Graham County, Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 28, 2012, 4:29 AM CDT (09:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2012, 8:06 PM CDT
In force: 40 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -520 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 28, 4:16 AM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 4:16 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 12:06 PM CDT, 16 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1106 AM MDT WED JUN 27 2012

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-281645-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1106 AM MDT WED JUN 27 2012 /1206 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2012/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING AS TEMPERATURES
RISE TO BETWEEN 103 AND 113. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WINDS WILL
ALSO PRODUCE EXTREME FIRE DANGER. LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...ISOLATED DRY THUNDERSTORMS WILL CREATE A THREAT FOR
LIGHTNING FIRE STARTS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO MEET OR EXCEED 100 DEGREES
THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND. A HEAT ADVISORY
CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON
AND EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY. RAINFALL WILL BE LIGHT AND LIGHTNING
STRIKES ON DRY GRASS AND STUBBLE MAY START FIRES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	44 min
Jun 27, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	41 min
Jun 27, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	34 min
Jun 27, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan, Thomas	47 min
Jun 27, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan, Thomas	44 min
Jun 27, 7:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	41 min
Jun 27, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	48 min
Jun 28, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	10 min
Jun 28, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	15 min
Jun 27, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	43 min

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2012 Every excessive heat warning in 2012

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.