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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 5, 2005, 3:45 AM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 6, 2005, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 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
- Oct 5, 2005, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 6, 2005, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2005, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 518 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 648 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 5, 3:10 AM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 3:10 AM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 3:48 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Norton and 5 more | 12 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Colorado, 2005Freeze Warnings in Nebraska, 2005Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 2005Every freeze warning in 2005
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.