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Winter Storm Watch 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this winter storm watch at Dec 26, 2007, 4:52 AM CST for 11 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It took effect at Dec 27, 2007, 7:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 26, 2007, 4:52 AM CST (10:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2007, 7:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2007, 1:33 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:54 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 26, 3:42 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 3:42 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 1:33 PM CST | Heavy Snow Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 3 more | 32 hr |
| Dec 26, 1:33 PM CST | Snow Advisory | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 3 more | 32 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Kansas, 2007Winter Storm Watches in Colorado, 2007Winter Storm Watches in Nebraska, 2007Every winter storm watch 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.