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Heat Advisory 6, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 17, 2016, 3:34 AM CDT for 7 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, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 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 Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
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.