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Heat Advisory 7, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this heat advisory at Aug 7, 2015, 2:25 PM CDT for 34 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 8, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 34 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2015, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 8, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
All 37 counties
Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 407 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
- 1503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1190 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Aug 7, 2:17 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:17 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 7, 2:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Jasper, Lawrence | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 2:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Christian | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 3:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Dade | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 3:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Lawrence | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 3:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Douglas | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 3:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Taney | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 3:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Christian | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone, Taney | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 5:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Howell, Oregon | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 5:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 5:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Ozark | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 5:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Oregon | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 6:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Greene | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 9:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 6 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.