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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Springfield, MO

July 10, 201317 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this heat advisory at Jul 10, 2013, 3:53 AM CDT for 17 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 10, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2013, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 10, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 10, 2013, 6:56 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 318 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: 2204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.3

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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 10, 3:26 AM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:26 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller, Pulaski	48 min
Jul 10, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede, Pulaski	49 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Missouri, 2013 Heat Advisories in Kansas, 2013 Every heat advisory in 2013

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.