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Excessive Heat Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS

July 22, 20175 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 22, 2017, 7:34 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 22, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 19 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 2017, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 22, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 23, 2017, 3:17 PM CDT
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2017-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2714 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2017-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 8:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarvey, Marion, Reno37 min
Jul 22, 8:35 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTLincoln4 hr
Jul 22, 9:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler, Kingman, Sedgwick28 min
Jul 22, 10:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSedgwick22 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.