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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 32 min |
| Jul 16, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 34 min |
| Jul 16, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 7:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 25 min |
| Jul 17, 8:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 8:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 28 min |
| Jul 17, 9:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 10:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 23 min |
| Jul 17, 10:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 33 min |
| Jul 17, 11:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 29 min |
| Jul 17, 11:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 30 min |
| Jul 17, 11:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 11:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 12:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 23 min |
| Jul 17, 3:02 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Allen, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette and 5 more | 53 hr |
| Jul 17, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 33 min |
| Jul 17, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 56 min |
Nearby
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.