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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
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 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.
- 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
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...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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 12:53 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 35 min |
| May 22, 8:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 38 min |
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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.