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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

April 30, 2008Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind warning at Apr 30, 2008, 10:24 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 4 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: Apr 30, 2008, 10:24 PM MDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2008, 1:56 AM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 4708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS73 KGLD 010424
NPWGLD

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1024 PM MDT WED APR 30 2008


COZ090-091-010800-
/O.NEW.KGLD.HW.W.0002.080501T0424Z-080501T0800Z/
YUMA-KIT CARSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON
1024 PM MDT WED APR 30 2008

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM MDT THURSDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM MDT THURSDAY. 

A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE AREA...BRINGING STRONG
NORTHERLY WINDS AS THE FRONT PASSES. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 40
MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THE FRONT
PASSES. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING DIRT THAT
COULD REDUCE VISIBILITIES...ESPECIALLY NEAR OPEN FIELDS.

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS STRONG WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR
IMMINENT WHICH COULD LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE...REDUCED VISIBILITY
IN BLOWING DUST...AND LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL. A HIGH WIND
WARNING IS ISSUED FOR SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR
GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE.

$$

JRM

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS73 KGLD 010756
NPWGLD

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
156 AM MDT THU MAY 1 2008


COZ090-091-010900-
/O.CAN.KGLD.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080501T0800Z/
YUMA-KIT CARSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON
156 AM MDT THU MAY 1 2008

...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH
WIND WARNING. 

THE COLD FRONT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STRONG WINDS HAS PUSHED FURTHER
EAST. AS A RESULT...WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED...THOUGH GUSTS TO 40
MPH WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS MORNING.

$$

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 2:57 PM MDT	High Wind Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma	12 hr

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.