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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this heat advisory at Jul 18, 2017, 2:58 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 19, 2017, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 55 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2017, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 19, 2017, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 18, 2:35 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 2:35 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 11:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Goodland KS 1040 AM MDT Tue Jul 18 2017 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-191645- Yuma County-Kit Carson County-Cheyenne County-Cheyenne-Rawlins- Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove- Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-Red Willow- 1040 AM MDT Tue Jul 18 2017 /1140 AM CDT Tue Jul 18 2017/ This hazardous weather outlook is for east central Colorado... extreme southwest Nebraska and northwest Kansas. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A few severe thunderstorms may develop late this afternoon through the early evening across northeast Colorado and southwest Nebraska. Threats include large hail and damaging wind. Heat index values around 105 degrees are possible across portions of the central high plains east of a line from Benkelman, Nebraska to Oakley, Kansas this afternoon. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... High Temperatures and Heat Index values in the lower 100s are possible each afternoon from Wednesday through Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required after 2 PM MDT (3 PM CDT) through 8 PM MDT (9 PM CDT).
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 12 min |
| Jul 17, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 8 min |
| Jul 17, 10:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 14 min |
| Jul 17, 10:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 18 min |
| Jul 17, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 16 min |
| Jul 17, 10:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 16 min |
| Jul 17, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 29 min |
| Jul 17, 11:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 14 min |
| Jul 18, 12:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 14 min |
| Jul 18, 12:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 21 min |
| Jul 18, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 9 min |
| Jul 18, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 16 min |
| Jul 18, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 6:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 17 min |
| Jul 18, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 16 min |
| Jul 18, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 26 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.