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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 51 min |
Nearby
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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.