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Heat Advisory 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this heat advisory at Aug 9, 2015, 3:49 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 9, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2015, 3:49 AM CDT (08:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 9, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2015, 2:54 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Aug 8, 11:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 11:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 5:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Clay | 39 hr |
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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.