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Heat Advisory 6, NWS Springfield, MO

July 6, 2016Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this heat advisory at Jul 6, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 7, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 7, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 7, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 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 20:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3010 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 320 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.9

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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 6, 2:43 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:43 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 12:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 6, 10:28 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1028 AM CDT WED JUL 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1010 AM     TSTM WND DMG     WILLOW SPRINGS          36.99N 91.97W
07/06/2016                   HOWELL             MO   911 CALL CENTER

            SEVERAL REPORTS OF POWER LINES AND TREES BLOWN IN WILLOW
            SPRINGS

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MGRIFFIN

Local storm report, Jul 6, 10:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1040 AM CDT WED JUL 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1027 AM     TSTM WND DMG     SUMMERSVILLE            37.18N 91.66W
07/06/2016                   TEXAS              MO   BROADCAST MEDIA

            DAMAGE TO THE ROOF OF BUSINESS IN SUMMERSVILLE

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BURCHFIELD

Local storm report, Jul 6, 11:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 6, 11:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 6, 11:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 6, 11:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Vernon	57 min
Jul 6, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster	42 min
Jul 6, 9:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Taney	24 min
Jul 6, 9:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Douglas	51 min
Jul 6, 9:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Ozark	19 min
Jul 6, 9:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Wright	34 min
Jul 6, 10:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Howell, Shannon, Texas	52 min
Jul 6, 10:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Ozark	34 min
Jul 6, 10:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	52 min
Jul 6, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	46 min

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.