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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO

July 24, 20154 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 24, 2015, 4:48 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 24, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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 24, 2015, 4:48 AM CDT (09:48 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 24, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 24, 2015, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 2501 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 24, 2:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 4:02 AM CDT, 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 23, 11:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 11:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 7:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Howell, Oregon	3 hr
Jul 23, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Oregon	24 min
Jul 23, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	49 min
Jul 23, 11:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Howell, Oregon	12 hr
Jul 24, 3:27 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	SGF	Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 28 more	30 hr
Jul 24, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Morgan	51 min
Jul 24, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan	50 min
Jul 24, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	33 min

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Missouri, 2015 Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2015 Every excessive heat warning 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.