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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Goodland, KS

November 13, 200513 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind watch at Nov 13, 2005, 12:37 PM CST for 13 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Nov 14, 2005, 3:00 PM CST. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 13, 2005, 12:37 PM CST (18:37 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 14, 2005, 3:00 PM CST
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 3:36 AM CST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 13, 3:45 AM CST, 8 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 13, 3:45 AM CST, 8 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 13, 6:07 AM CST, 6 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
507 AM MST SUN NOV 13 2005

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-141215-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
607 AM CST SUN NOV 13 2005 /507 AM MST SUN NOV 13 2005/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

VERY WINDY CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY BEHIND A COLD FRONT
PASSING THROUGH THE TRI STATE AREA. NORTHWEST WIND AT 25 TO 35 MPH
WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST COMBINED
WITH THE STRONG WIND COULD PRODUCE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

FS

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Kansas, 2005 High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2005 High Wind Watches in Nebraska, 2005 Every high wind watch 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.