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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this heat advisory at Jun 14, 2016, 8:11 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 15, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 55 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2016, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 15, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jun 14, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 309 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-152015- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 309 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS FAR EASTERN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN HAZARDS INCLUDE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES ARE FORECAST TO PEAK IN THE 100 TO 108 DEGREE RANGE FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TOP/SITREP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jackson | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 9:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 3:40 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 9 more | 65 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Watch | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 36 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 33 min |
Nearby
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.