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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 31, 2018Barber County, Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this heat advisory at May 31, 2018, 1:57 PM CDT for Barber County, Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas. It took effect at Jun 1, 2018, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 2018, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 1, 2018, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 1, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 763 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 395 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 16.4

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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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at May 31, 12:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 12:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	64 min
May 30, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	45 min
May 30, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Seward	60 min
May 30, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	56 min
May 30, 9:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	42 min
May 30, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	33 min
May 30, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	49 min
May 30, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	45 min
May 30, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	56 min
May 30, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber, Pratt	61 min
May 30, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	46 min
May 31, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	45 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Kansas, 2018 Every heat advisory in 2018

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.