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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 11, 2020, 4:24 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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 11, 2020, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2020, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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, 9.4 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
- 1751 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1318 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 10, 5:54 PM CDT, 22 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 5:54 PM CDT, 22 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 4:05 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt | 16 hr |
Nearby
Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2020Every excessive heat warning in 2020
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.