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Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at May 26, 2006, 3:20 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at May 27, 2006, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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
- May 26, 2006, 3:20 AM MDT (09:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 27, 2006, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 27, 2006, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 3058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 26, 2:15 AM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:15 AM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
215 AM MDT FRI MAY 26 2006
.DISCUSSION...FORECAST CONCERNS REMAIN ON HIGH TEMPERATURES AND
POSSIBLE RECORDS THE NEXT 3 DAYS FOLLOWED BY STRENGTH OF WINDS AND
THEIR IMPACTS ON FIRE WEATHER THREAT TODAY AND TOMORROW.
FINALLY...THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING ROUND OUT MY FORECAST CONCERNS.
THIS MORNING...BROKEN LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES
TO SLOWLY ORGANIZE WHILE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20KTS. DISTANCE/SPEED
OF MOTION SUGGESTS THAT PRECIPITATION SHOULD EXIT THE AREA AFTER
12Z.
TODAY/TONIGHT...INSTABILITY WILL AGAIN BUILD ACROSS THE AREA AS
AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES PUSH WELL INTO THE 90S WITH A FEW 100S
POSSIBLE. GREATEST INSTABILITY WILL EXIST ACROSS THE NORTHERN
THROUGH EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA ALONG OR IN THE VICINITY OF A
WARM FRONT. 700-500 MOISTURE SHOWS AN INCREASE AGAIN FROM THE
SOUTHWEST...REACHING THE FORECAST AREA AROUND THE TIME OF PEAK
HEATING. 250 DIVERGENCE FROM THE NAM/GFS (BOTH DID WELL WITH
CURRENT PRECIP PER RADAR IMAGERY) SHOW 2 DISTINCT AREAS OF
PRECIP...ONE ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO AND THE OTHER ACROSS THE
FAR EASTERN PART OF THE AREA. CURRENT WX/POP/QPF GRIDS HAVE THE
GENERAL SCENARIO WELL LAYED OUT SO ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS MADE.
ANY PRECIP THAT DEVELOPS IN OUR AREA WILL BE NORTH AND EAST OF THE
AREA BY 06Z. STRONGEST WINDS WILL EXIST ACROSS THE EASTERN 1/3 OF
THE AREA FOR MOST OF THE DAY BUT AS THE SURFACE LOW DEVELOPS AND
DIURNAL PEAK IS REACHED EXPECT STRONGEST WINDS TO EXPAND
WESTWARD...SOUTH OF THE WARM FRONT.
SATURDAY/SATURDAY NIGHT...AS THE LARGE WEST COAST TROUGH SLOWLY
APPROACHES THE AREA ASSOCIATED SURFACE TROUGH MOVES A BIT FURTHER
EAST WITH INSTABILITY AXIS SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE EASTERN 1/4 OF THE
FORECAST AREA. MID LEVEL MOISTURE AGAIN MEETS UP WITH THE
INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE SOME CONVECTION. RIGHT NOW ITS A MATTER OF
WHETHER TO INCLUDE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR GRAHAM AND NORTON
COUNTIES OR LEAVE IT OUT. FOR NOW WILL LEAVE IT OUT AND KEEP
CURRENT INHERITED GRIDS. LITTLE TO TALK ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT AND
WARM SOUTHERLY WINDS CONTINUE. WILL NEED TO WATCH THE APPROACHING
FRONT COMING IN FROM THE WEST BUT ITS IMPACT SATURDAY NIGHT IS
NEGLIGIBLE. STRONGEST WINDS WILL AGAIN BEGIN THE DAY ACROSS THE
EAST BUT AS THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS APPROACH AN EXPANSION
OF WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP WESTWARD.
SUNDAY/SUNDAY NIGHT...ANOTHER HOT DAY EXPECTED BUT PERHAPS A
DEGREE OR TWO LESS HOT AS THE BUILDING EAST COAST RIDGE PREVENTS
THE WEST COAST TROUGH FROM MAKING MUCH EASTWARD PROGRESS.
INSTABILITY WILL BE EAST AND NORTH OF THE AREA SO PRECIP CHANCES
NIL. GFS/NAM DO BRING THE FRONT INTO THE WESTERN 1/2 OF THE AREA
SUNDAY NIGHT BUT LIMITED MOISTURE AND LIFT PRECLUDE ANY PRECIP POTENTIAL.
MONDAY-THURSDAY...LITTLE CHANGE MADE.
&&
.FIRE WEATHER...SOME QUESTION AS TO WHETHER RED FLAG WARNING
CRITERIA WILL BE MET ACROSS FAR EASTERN COLORADO AS RH VALUES AND
WINDS WILL BE MARGINAL FOR MOST OF THE DAY. BY 22Z OR SO TODAY
WINDS SHOULD NOTICEABLY PICK UP AND GIVEN ITS THE TIME OF MAX
HEATING IT WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF REACHING 15 PERCENT RH OR
LESS. ON SATURDAY ITS A SLAM DUNK FOR WARNING CRITERIA. PER
COORDINATION WITH WFO BOU/PUB WILL GO AHEAD AND ISSUE WARNINGS
BOTH TODAY AND SATURDAY BUT ADJUST THE TIME BY EXTENDING IT UNTIL
03Z.
&&
.GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...NONE.
NE...NONE.
CO...RED FLAG WARNING FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR
COZ253-COZ254.
RED FLAG WARNING FROM 12 PM TO 9 PM MDT SATURDAY FOR COZ252-
COZ253-COZ254.
&&
DDTHazardous weather outlook, May 25, 10:55 AM MDT, 16 hours 25 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 26, 2:39 AM MDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 239 AM MDT FRI MAY 26 2006 KSZ001-NEZ079-260930- CHEYENNE-DUNDY- 239 AM MDT FRI MAY 26 2006 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 337 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAIGLER...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF ST. FRANCIS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 66 min |
| May 26, 3:20 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 15 hr |
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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.