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Wind Advisory 27, NWS Goodland, KS

July 31, 20067 counties in Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Jul 31, 2006, 11:57 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 2006, 11:57 AM CDT (16:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 2006, 5:10 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2006-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2006-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-404 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jul 31, 11:44 AM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 11:44 AM CDT, 13 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 11:45 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1045 AM MDT MON JUL 31 2006

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-011200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
1145 AM CDT MON JUL 31 2006 /1045 AM MDT MON JUL 31 2006/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG A TROUGH OF
LOW PRESSURE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO
BECOME STATIONARY ALONG A LINE FROM HAIGLER TO STRATTON TO KIT
CARSON.

ALTHOUGH THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS LOW...STRONG WINDS
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT
DEVELOP. SLOW STORM MOTIONS WILL ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED HEAVY
RAINFALL IN SOME LOCATIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS A
STORM SYSTEM MOVES OVER THE AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME
SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

BLAIR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson35 min

Nearby

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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.