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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 9, 2009, 3:13 PM CST for 13 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Dec 9, 2009, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 9, 2009, 3:13 PM CST (21:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 9, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2009, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 16 hr
- 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, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton 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, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 chill advisory went out at Dec 9, 3:02 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 3:02 PM CST, 11 minutes before
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Local storm report, Dec 9, 2:07 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
107 PM MST WED DEC 09 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0820 AM SNOW WRAY 40.08N 102.23W
12/08/2009 E4.0 INCH YUMA CO EMERGENCY MNGR
0832 AM SNOW E VERNON 39.93N 102.32W
12/08/2009 M1.8 INCH YUMA CO CO-OP OBSERVER
0832 AM SNOW 1 W TRIBUNE 38.47N 101.77W
12/08/2009 M3.7 INCH GREELEY KS CO-OP OBSERVER
0840 AM SNOW QUINTER 39.07N 100.23W
12/08/2009 M4.0 INCH GOVE KS CO-OP OBSERVER
0840 AM SNOW 8 NW ST. FRANCIS 39.85N 101.91W
12/08/2009 M2.0 INCH CHEYENNE KS CO-OP OBSERVER
0925 AM SNOW 12 N GOODLAND 39.52N 101.71W
12/08/2009 M3.0 INCH SHERMAN KS NWS EMPLOYEE
0949 AM SNOW GRAINFIELD 39.11N 100.47W
12/08/2009 M5.2 INCH GOVE KS CO-OP OBSERVER
0951 AM SNOW ATWOOD 39.81N 101.04W
12/08/2009 E3.0 INCH RAWLINS KS BROADCAST MEDIA
0951 AM SNOW OBERLIN 39.82N 100.53W
12/08/2009 M4.0 INCH DECATUR KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
MODERATE SNOW STILL FALLING.
0953 AM SNOW TRIBUNE 38.47N 101.75W
12/08/2009 E3.0 INCH GREELEY KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
0953 AM SNOW LEOTI 38.48N 101.36W
12/08/2009 M4.0 INCH WICHITA KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
0953 AM SNOW COLBY 39.39N 101.05W
12/08/2009 E4.0 INCH THOMAS KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
MODERATE SNOW STILL FALLING.
0953 AM SNOW SHARON SPRINGS 38.89N 101.75W
12/08/2009 M6.0 INCH WALLACE KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
0956 AM SNOW ST. FRANCIS 39.77N 101.80W
12/08/2009 E5.0 INCH CHEYENNE KS UTILITY COMPANY
0956 AM HEAVY SNOW SELDEN 39.54N 100.57W
12/08/2009 M7.0 INCH SHERIDAN KS EMERGENCY MNGR
1003 AM SNOW BURLINGTON 39.31N 102.27W
12/08/2009 M4.0 INCH KIT CARSON CO LAW ENFORCEMENT
1003 AM SNOW 9 SW HILL CITY 39.26N 99.95W
12/08/2009 M5.0 INCH GRAHAM KS CO-OP OBSERVER
1012 AM SNOW CHEYENNE WELLS 38.82N 102.35W
12/08/2009 M3.0 INCH CHEYENNE CO EMERGENCY MNGR
1012 AM SNOW HILL CITY 39.37N 99.85W
12/08/2009 M5.0 INCH GRAHAM KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
1012 AM SNOW NORTON 39.84N 99.89W
12/08/2009 M6.0 INCH NORTON KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
1103 AM SNOW STRATTON 39.30N 102.60W
12/08/2009 M3.0 INCH KIT CARSON CO AMATEUR RADIO
1113 AM HEAVY SNOW INDIANOLA 40.23N 100.42W
12/08/2009 E6.0 INCH RED WILLOW NE AMATEUR RADIO
ONE FOOT DRIFTS ALSO REPORTED.
1113 AM SNOW 23 SW GOODLAND 39.11N 102.01W
12/08/2009 E3.0 INCH WALLACE KS CO-OP OBSERVER
1210 PM HEAVY SNOW 9 NNE KIT CARSON 38.88N 102.73W
12/08/2009 E6.5 INCH CHEYENNE CO CO-OP OBSERVER
1222 PM SNOW BURLINGTON 39.31N 102.27W
12/08/2009 M5.5 INCH KIT CARSON CO LAW ENFORCEMENT
0119 PM HEAVY SNOW NORTON 39.84N 99.89W
12/08/2009 M7.0 INCH NORTON KS TRAINED SPOTTER
2.5 INCHES OF SNOW IN THE PAST THREE HOURS.
0210 PM SNOW OAKLEY 39.13N 100.85W
12/08/2009 E0.0 INCH LOGAN KS EMERGENCY MNGR
MULTIPLE SLIDE OFFS AND ACCIDENTS REPORTED ALONG
INTERSTATE 70 AND AREA HIGHWAYS DUE TO SLICK ROADS AND
LESS THAN 1/4 MILE VISIBLITY DUE TO THE BLOWING SNOW.
0738 AM HEAVY SNOW 9 SW HILL CITY 39.26N 99.95W
12/09/2009 M11.0 INCH GRAHAM KS CO-OP OBSERVER
COOP OBSERVER REPORTED STORM TOTAL SNOW OF 11 INCHES.
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FOLTZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 9:55 PM CST | Wind Chill Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 12 hr |
| Dec 9, 3:30 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Norton and 4 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Wind Chill Advisories in Kansas, 2009Wind Chill Advisories in Colorado, 2009Wind Chill Advisories in Nebraska, 2009Every wind chill advisory in 2009
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.