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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 15, 20165 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 15, 2016, 2:44 PM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 16, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2016, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 16, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jun 16, 2016, 10:52 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

Counties Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 845 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 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
845 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jun 15, 12:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 12:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:49 AM CDT, 8 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
549 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-161100-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS-
ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-
HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-
CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-
RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-
COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
549 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

 HEAT INDICES WILL TOP OUT AROUND 105 DEGREES ACROSS MOST OF THE
AREA.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

 HEAT INDICES AROUND 110 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED ON THURSDAY...MAINLY
ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70...HOWEVER AREAS NORTH OF I 70 SHOULD
ALSO EXPECT HEAT INDICES ABOVE 100 DEGREES.

THE HEAT CONTINUES INTO FRIDAY...WITH HEAT INDICES APPROACHING 105
DEGREES ACROSS AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70.

 MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT...
 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/EAX/HWO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:04 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryEAXBates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton and 10 more23 hr
Jun 15, 1:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXBates39 min
Jun 15, 2:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXBates50 min
Jun 15, 3:46 AM CDTExcessive Heat WatchEAXClay, Jackson, Platte11 hr
Jun 15, 3:46 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryEAXAndrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 25 more64 hr

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Missouri, 2016Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2016Every excessive heat warning in 2016

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.