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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 13, 2015, 11:40 AM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 14, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2015, 11:40 AM CDT (16:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 14, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 13, 7:03 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 7:03 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 4:05 AM CDT, 7 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 405 AM CDT MON JUL 13 2015 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-140915- TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 405 AM CDT MON JUL 13 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. DISCUSSION...THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE SUMMER, SO FAR, IS FORECAST TODAY. TEMPERATURES WILL TOP OUT IN THE 102 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY GENERALLY EAST OF A HAYS TO KINSLEY TO COLDWATER LINE. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96. THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK IS LOW, BUT THE STRONGEST STORM MAY PRODUCE UP TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED HAIL RISK. LIMITED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK. LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. ELEVATED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. DISCUSSION...THE BEST CHANCE FOR ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS A COUPLE OF UPPER AIR DISTURBANCES MOVE NORTHEAST FROM THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK IS LIMITED BOTH DAYS, HOWEVER A FEW LARGE HAIL REPORTS CANNOT BE RULED OUT ALONG WITH DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS OF 60 MPH OR GREATER. HAZARDS WEATHER RISK... TUESDAY... LIMITED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK. ELEVATED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. WEDNESDAY... LIMITED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK. ELEVATED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. THURSDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. ELEVATED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. FRIDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. ELEVATED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. SATURDAY... ELEVATED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. SUNDAY... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. ELEVATED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC/EHWO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Scott | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 67 min |
| Jul 13, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman | 57 min |
Nearby
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.