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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 23, 2015, 2:25 PM CDT for 9 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 24, 2015, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2015, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 24, 2015, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2015, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 23, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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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.