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Heat Advisory 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 23, 2015, 1:59 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 24, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2015, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 24, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 10:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 11:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 3:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 40 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.