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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Goodland, KS

July 19, 20145 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 19, 2014, 2:58 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 21, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2014, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 21, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 21, 2014, 7:34 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3184 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 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, 12:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 12:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 7:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	3 hr
Jul 18, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	39 min
Jul 18, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	42 min
Jul 18, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	66 min
Jul 18, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	29 min
Jul 18, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	55 min
Jul 18, 9:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	3 hr
Jul 18, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	36 min
Jul 18, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	40 min
Jul 19, 2:58 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	28 hr
Jul 18, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	34 min
Jul 18, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	67 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Kansas, 2014 Heat Advisories in Nebraska, 2014 Every heat advisory in 2014

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.