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Heat Advisory 7, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 19, 2015Bates County, Henry County, Missouri; Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this heat advisory at Jul 19, 2015, 3:36 AM CDT for Bates County, Henry County, Missouri; Linn County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 19, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2015, 3:36 AM CDT (08:36 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 19, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 19, 2015, 8:06 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

Counties Linn County, KS, Bates County, MO, Henry County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 16.8

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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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 19, 3:27 AM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:27 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 4:53 AM CDT, 22 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
453 AM CDT SAT JUL 18 2015

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-191000-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS-
ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-
HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-
CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-
RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-
COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
453 AM CDT SAT JUL 18 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

 ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS TODAY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.
 HEAT INDICES WILL CLIMB TO BETWEEN 101 AND 105 ACROSS THE AREA.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

 A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. FLOODING
 RAINS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 12:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1245 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

MOZ004-005-014-190630-
HARRISON MO-GENTRY MO-DAVIESS MO-
1245 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN HARRISON...
NORTHWESTERN DAVIESS AND EAST CENTRAL GENTRY COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM
CDT...

AT 1244 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR NEW HAMPTON...OR NEAR ALBANY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BETHANY...NEW HAMPTON AND MCFALL.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 IN MISSOURI BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 82 AND
97.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 4016 9435 4028 9427 4035 9400 4018 9399
      4006 9413
TIME...MOT...LOC 0544Z 280DEG 13KT 4021 9425

LEIGHTON

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 1:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
148 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

MOZ005-014-015-190730-
HARRISON MO-GRUNDY MO-DAVIESS MO-
148 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN HARRISON...
SOUTHWESTERN GRUNDY AND NORTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTIES UNTIL 230 AM
CDT...

AT 148 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR TRENTON TO 7 MILES
WEST OF GILMAN CITY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TRENTON...JAMESPORT...GILMAN CITY...LAREDO...COFFEY...JAMESON...
TINDALL AND BRIMSON.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 IN MISSOURI BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 84 AND
87.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 3997 9339 3997 9403 4020 9404 4022 9360
TIME...MOT...LOC 0648Z 331DEG 9KT 4016 9365 4015 9401

LEIGHTON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Gentry	45 min
Jul 19, 1:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry, Harrison	6 hr
Jul 19, 1:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Mercer, Sullivan	6 hr
Jul 19, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Grundy	42 min
Jul 19, 2:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan	6 hr
Jul 19, 3:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 29 more	33 hr
Jul 19, 6:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Howard, Linn, Livingston, Macon and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 19, 6:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EAX	Andrew, Holt	3 hr
Jul 19, 7:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Nodaway, Worth	25 min
Jul 19, 8:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Macon	40 min
Jul 19, 8:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EAX	Worth	44 min
Jul 19, 8:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Linn	3 hr
Jul 19, 9:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy, Harrison	3 hr
Jul 19, 11:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Ray	72 hr
Jul 19, 11:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	53 hr
Jul 19, 11:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Howard	59 hr
Jul 19, 11:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Gentry	56 hr
Jul 19, 11:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Livingston	60 hr
Jul 19, 11:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Randolph	9 hr
Jul 19, 12:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Chariton, Macon	61 hr
Jul 19, 2:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	3 days
Jul 19, 11:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	57 hr

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.