Alert archive / Kansas / Ice Storm Warnings in 2006
Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 4:45 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more | 55 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.