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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 5, 2016, 1:25 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2016, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 2267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 5, 12:30 PM CDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 12:30 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 10:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski, Texas | 12 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:13 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | SGF | Camden, Dallas, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Laclede and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 24 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | SGF | Barton, Benton, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Greene and 8 more | 30 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.