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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Springfield, MO

July 7, 201711 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this heat advisory at Jul 7, 2017, 2:25 PM CDT for 11 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 7, 2017, 3:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 2017, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 7, 2017, 3:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 7, 2017, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 43 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jul 7, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 1:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 9:10 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 9:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Maries	50 min
Jul 7, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	McDonald, Newton	54 min
Jul 7, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	46 min
Jul 7, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry	62 min
Jul 7, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	39 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.