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Heat Advisory 10, NWS Topeka, KS

August 10, 201612 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this heat advisory at Aug 10, 2016, 4:02 AM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 10, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 2016, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 10, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 10, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS

Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 2067 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Aug 10, 4:02 AM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 4:02 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 2:41 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more	29 hr

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Kansas, 2016 Every 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.