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Excessive Heat Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
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, 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.
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Marion, Reno | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 8:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 9:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Kingman, Sedgwick | 28 min |
| Jul 22, 10:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 22 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.