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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

November 30, 20075 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this ice storm warning at Nov 30, 2007, 11:53 AM CST for 5 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Nov 30, 2007, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 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: Nov 30, 2007, 11:53 AM CST (17:53 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 30, 2007, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 1, 2007, 6:09 AM CST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 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 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 Nov 30, 3:45 AM CST, 8 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 3:45 AM CST, 8 hours 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 30, 5:25 AM CST, 6 hours 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
425 AM MST FRI NOV 30 2007

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-011345-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
425 AM MST FRI NOV 30 2007 /525 AM CST FRI NOV 30 2007/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A WINTER STORM WILL IMPACT THE TRI-STATE AREA TONIGHT. LIGHT SNOW
WILL DEVELOP BY THIS EVENING. DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...PRECIPITATION
WILL CHANGEOVER TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN. ROADS WILL BECOME ICY
MAKING EARLY MORNING TRAVEL HAZARDOUS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

WIDESPREAD FREEZING RAIN WILL MAKE ROADS SLICK ACROSS THE TRI-
STATE AREA SATURDAY MORNING. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE BY SATURDAY
AFTERNOON AS WARMER AIR IS USHERED INTO THE AREA BY STRONG SOUTH WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

FS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 30, 11:53 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	22 hr
Nov 30, 3:52 PM CST	High Wind Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more	20 hr
Nov 30, 3:52 PM CST	Wind Advisory	GLD	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Norton and 6 more	26 hr

Nearby

Ice Storm Warnings in Kansas, 2007 Ice Storm Warnings in Nebraska, 2007 Every ice storm warning in 2007

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.