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Heat Advisory 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this heat advisory at Aug 2, 2016, 4:07 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 2, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2016, 4:07 AM CDT (09:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 2, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 2364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Ottawa | 3 hr |
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.