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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind warning at Dec 27, 2005, 11:17 AM MST for Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 6 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
- Dec 27, 2005, 11:17 AM MST (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2005, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KGLD 271817 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1117 AM MST TUE DEC 27 2005 ...STRONG WINDS ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA... .VERY WINDY CONDITIONS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE FROM WEST TO EAST BY LATE AFTERNOON. COZ091-KSZ013-280000- /O.UPG.KGLD.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-051228T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KGLD.HW.W.0004.051227T1817Z-051228T0000Z/ KIT CARSON-SHERMAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURLINGTON...GOODLAND 1117 AM MST TUE DEC 27 2005 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO AROUND 45 MPH WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 58 MPH IN THE BURLINGTON AREA. THEREFORE A HIGH WIND WARNING IS NOT IN EFFECT THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN GOODLAND AND FLAGLER. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING DIRT REDUCING VISIBILITY BELOW ONE HALF MILE AT TIMES. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS STRONG WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR IMMINENT WHICH COULD LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE...REDUCED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DUST...AND LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED FOR SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE. $$ COZ090-092-KSZ001>004-014>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-280000- /O.CON.KGLD.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-051228T0000Z/ YUMA-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-THOMAS- SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY- HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...CHEYENNE WELLS... ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN...NORTON...COLBY...HOXIE... HILL CITY...SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY...QUINTER...TRIBUNE...LEOTI... BENKELMAN...TRENTON...MCCOOK 1217 PM CST TUE DEC 27 2005 /1117 AM MST TUE DEC 27 2005/ ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON. THE WINDS WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING DIRT. VISIBILITY WILL BE REDUCED AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY NEAR OPEN FIELDS. IF YOU ARE DRIVING AND THE VISIBILITY SUDDENLY DROPS...PULL COMPLETELY OFF THE ROAD AND WAIT FOR THE VISIBILITY TO IMPROVE. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS MAY AFFECT TRAVEL...ESPECIALLY LIGHT WEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN WIND GUSTS WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL. $$ MCGUIRE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KGLD 272348 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 448 PM MST TUE DEC 27 2005 COZ091-KSZ013-280100- /O.EXP.KGLD.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-051228T0000Z/ KIT CARSON-SHERMAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURLINGTON...GOODLAND 448 PM MST TUE DEC 27 2005 ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THE HIGH WINDS WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST. $$ COZ090-092-KSZ001>004-014>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-280100- /O.EXP.KGLD.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-051228T0000Z/ YUMA-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-THOMAS- SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY- HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...CHEYENNE WELLS... ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN...NORTON...COLBY...HOXIE... HILL CITY...SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY...QUINTER...TRIBUNE...LEOTI... BENKELMAN...TRENTON...MCCOOK 548 PM CST TUE DEC 27 2005 /448 PM MST TUE DEC 27 2005/ ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON... STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED AND THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST (4 PM CST). $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 3:46 AM MST | Wind Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Kansas, 2005High Wind Warnings in Colorado, 2005Every high wind 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.