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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Wichita, KS

July 17, 201522 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 17, 2015, 4:23 AM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 18, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 2015, 4:23 AM CDT (09:23 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 18, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 18, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
All 22 counties

Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 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 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 273 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 00:00Z on 2015-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 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 00:00Z on 2015-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 17, 3:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 3:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 4:48 PM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
448 PM CDT THU JUL 16 2015

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-172200-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
448 PM CDT THU JUL 16 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION
THIS EVENING...POSSIBLY PERSISTING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...ANY ACTIVITY
THAT DEVELOPS WILL BE CAPABLE OF 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS...DIME TO
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105
DEGREES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA FRIDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY...POSSIBLY EXTENDING INTO MONDAY OVER FAR SOUTHERN KANSAS.

HIT-OR-MISS THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FROM
FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK....MAINLY DURING THE LATE
AFTERNOON...EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. A MORE WIDESPREAD CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. WHILE
WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED DURING ANY OF THESE
PERIODS...A HANDFUL OF STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF 60 MPH WINDS AND
QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 9:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarper32 min
Jul 16, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper34 min
Jul 16, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Sumner35 min
Jul 17, 7:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner25 min
Jul 17, 8:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSumner34 min
Jul 17, 8:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTCowley28 min
Jul 17, 9:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTElk34 min
Jul 17, 10:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler23 min
Jul 17, 10:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler33 min
Jul 17, 11:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTWoodson29 min
Jul 17, 11:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTWoodson30 min
Jul 17, 11:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTGreenwood34 min
Jul 17, 11:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTWoodson35 min
Jul 17, 12:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTCowley23 min
Jul 17, 3:02 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryICTAllen, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette and 5 more53 hr
Jul 17, 5:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTBarton33 min
Jul 17, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton56 min

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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.