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Heat Advisory 4, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 25, 201513 counties in Iowa; 9 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this heat advisory at Jul 25, 2015, 3:02 AM CDT for 13 counties in Iowa; 9 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Jul 25, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 2015, 3:02 AM CDT (08:02 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 25, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 25, 2015, 11:59 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
All 24 counties

Cedar County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Warren County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 438 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3998 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
3998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1338 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.8

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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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 24, 11:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 11:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 4:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNLee, Van Buren54 min
Jul 25, 6:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNHenry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Van Buren, Washington56 min
Jul 25, 4:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNHancock53 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Iowa, 2015Heat Advisories in Illinois, 2015Heat Advisories in Missouri, 2015Every heat advisory in 2015

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.