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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 17, 2016Atchison County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this heat advisory at Jun 17, 2016, 3:55 AM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2016, 3:55 AM CDT (08:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO

County Atchison County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 321 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2016-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3367 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2016-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
3367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

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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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jun 16, 10:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 10:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 5:36 AM CDT, 22 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
536 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-171045-
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-
536 AM CDT THU JUN 16 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 EXCEEDING 100 DEGREES AND APPROACHING 110 DEGREES ARE
EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME AFTERNOON
AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. AN
ISOLATED STRONG STORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

 HEAT INDICES...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 AND WEST OF INTERSTATE
35 COULD EXCEED 100 DEGREES. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING.

THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE
AREA TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

 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 16, 7:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXHenry34 min
Jun 16, 8:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEAXHenry47 min
Jun 16, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry34 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Kansas, 2016Every heat advisory 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.