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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

December 19, 2006Graham County, Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this ice storm warning at Dec 19, 2006, 4:45 AM CST for Graham County, Norton County, Kansas. It took effect at Dec 19, 2006, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 22 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 19, 2006, 4:45 AM CST (10:45 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 19, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 20, 2006, 4:04 PM CST
In force
22 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:43 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2006-12-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2006-12-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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 ice storm 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 ice storm warning went out at Dec 18, 4:09 PM CST, 12 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 4:09 PM CST, 12 hours 36 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 18, 5:05 AM CST, 23 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
405 AM MST MON DEC 18 2006

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-191200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
405 AM MST MON DEC 18 2006 /505 AM CST MON DEC 18 2006/

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...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A LARGE WINTER STORM WILL MOVE OUT OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND INTO
THE CENTRAL PLAINS LATE TUESDAY AND INTO THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. AS A
RESULT...A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE
TRI-STATE AREA LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND TUESDAY NIGHT. THE BEST
CHANCE FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW WILL BE ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83
WHILE A MIX OF SLEET...SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE EAST
OF HIGHWAY 83.

THE TRACK OF THE STORM REMAINS UNCERTAIN AND IF THE STORM REMAINS
FURTHER NORTH...PRECIPITATION WILL RAPIDLY DIMINISH DURING THE
MORNING HOURS ON WEDNESDAY. IF THE STORM TRACKS FURTHER
SOUTH...HEAVIER SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF
THE AREA.

THOSE PLANNING TRAVEL ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS STATES TUESDAY THROUGH
THURSDAY SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

MCGUIRE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 19, 4:45 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more55 hr

Nearby

Ice Storm Warnings in Kansas, 2006Every ice storm warning in 2006

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.