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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS

May 23, 2006Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at May 23, 2006, 3:11 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at May 23, 2006, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2006, 3:11 AM MDT (09:11 UTC)
In effect from
May 23, 2006, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 23, 2006, 8:37 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2006-05-23Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2006-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 23, 2:25 AM MDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 2:25 AM MDT, 46 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 10:50 AM MDT, 16 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1050 AM MDT MON MAY 22 2006

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-231300-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1150 AM CDT MON MAY 22 2006 /1050 AM MDT MON MAY 22 2006/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

...OUTBREAK OF SEVERE WEATHER LIKELY THIS EVENING IN WESTERN PORTION
OF THE TRI STATE AREA...

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL
ROCKIES AND HIGH PLAINS TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP NEAR THE
FRONT RANGE OF COLORADO AND MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE TRI STATE AREA
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR
WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING
SUPERCELLS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE
ALONG AND WEST OF A MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO LEOTI KANSAS LINE THIS
EVENING.

THE SEVERE THREAT WILL DIMINISH BY MIDNIGHT...BUT THUNDERSTORMS
COULD PERSIST INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH LIGHTNING BECOMING THE
PRIMARY HAZARD.

SEVERE DROUGHT CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA HAVE RESULTED IN DRY AND
BRITTLE FUELS. LIGHTNING STRIKES COULD POTENTIALLY START GRASS AND
BRUSH FIRES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING FOR A LARGE
PART OF THE TRI STATE AREA.

JDK

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 12:53 AM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 12:53 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins, Thomas35 min
May 22, 8:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson38 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2006Every red flag 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.