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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 27, 2018, 12:13 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 27, 2018, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2018, 12:13 PM CDT (17:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 27, 2018, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:16 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jun 27, 6:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 6:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 7:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Anderson | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Coffey | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 8:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Coffey | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 9:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Lyon | 3 hr |
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.