Alert archive / Kansas / Winter Storm Warnings in 2009
Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this winter storm warning at Dec 7, 2009, 4:30 AM CST for 11 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Dec 8, 2009, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 19 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
- Dec 7, 2009, 4:30 AM CST (10:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 8, 2009, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2009, 9:55 PM CST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 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 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 7, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 12:00 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 8 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Kansas, 2009Winter Storm Warnings in Nebraska, 2009Winter Storm Warnings in Colorado, 2009Every winter storm warning 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.