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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Goodland, KS

July 19, 20129 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 19, 2012, 4:23 AM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 19, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2012, 4:23 AM CDT (09:23 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 19, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 24, 2012, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
5 days
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:26 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2012-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 242 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2012-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
242 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3272 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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 heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 19, 3:31 AM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:31 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 3:45 PM CDT, 12 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
245 PM MDT WED JUL 18 2012

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-191200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
245 PM MDT WED JUL 18 2012 /345 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2012/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE
TRI-STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THREAT FOR
WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW BUT THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD
BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. GIVEN THE VERY DRY
CONDITIONS...THESE GUSTY WINDS COULD GENERATE AREAS OF BLOWING DIRT
WHICH MAY TEMPORARILY REDUCE VISIBILITY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
ALSO BE POSSIBLE AS STORMS WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

FROM THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100-105 DEGREES
ARE EXPECTED GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM TRENTON
NEBRASKA TO GOVE KANSAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 7:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDRawlins49 min
Jul 18, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins51 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Kansas, 2012Heat Advisories in Nebraska, 2012Every heat advisory 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.