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Heat Advisory 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 7, 2015Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas

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.

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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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2015-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1070 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2015-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 4:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott38 min
Aug 7, 6:13 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDDCClark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more2 hr
Aug 7, 6:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton59 min

Nearby

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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.