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Heat Advisory 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this heat advisory at Aug 7, 2015, 2:20 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2015, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1070 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Aug 7, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 3:30 AM CDT, 10 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 330 AM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-081200- 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- 330 AM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015 /230 AM MDT FRI AUG 7 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL APPROACH WESTERN KANSAS TODAY, ALONG WITH A WARM FRONT. THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING AND THEN AGAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF AN ISOLATED STORM DOES DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON, IT COULD CONTAIN HAIL AS LARGE AS GOLF BALLS AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... A FEW STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC JF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 6:13 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 59 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.