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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 16, 2020Clay County, Jackson County, Platte County, Missouri; Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 16, 2020, 10:38 AM CDT for Clay County, Jackson County, Platte County, Missouri; Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 17, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 47 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 16, 2020, 10:38 AM CDT (15:38 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 17, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 19, 2020, 10:32 AM CDT
In force: 47 hr
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO

Counties Johnson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Clay County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 15, 2:48 PM CDT, 19 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:48 PM CDT, 19 hours 50 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 2:48 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	EAX	Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 28 more	3 days

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Missouri, 2020 Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2020 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.