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Heat Advisory 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this heat advisory at Jul 17, 2016, 3:11 AM CDT for 11 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 17, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2016, 3:11 AM CDT (08:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 17, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
Counties Atchison County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 325 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
- 2380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 429 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 25.3
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 Jul 16, 11:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 11:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 3:42 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | EAX | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more | 69 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.