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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Aug 26, 2010, 3:28 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska. It took effect at Aug 27, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Aug 26, 2010, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 27, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 2885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 20 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2010Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2010Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010
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.