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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind warning at Apr 9, 2011, 3:08 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; Greeley County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2011, 3:08 PM MDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2011, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:40 PM MDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 58 | Firstview, CO | |
| Apr 9, 4:33 PM MDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 67 | 12 Ne Goodland, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
260 WWUS73 KGLD 092108 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 308 PM MDT SAT APR 9 2011 COZ091-092-KSZ013-027-041-100200- /O.UPG.KGLD.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-110410T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KGLD.HW.W.0002.110409T2108Z-110410T0200Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-SHERMAN-WALLACE-GREELEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURLINGTON...CHEYENNE WELLS... GOODLAND...SHARON SPRINGS...TRIBUNE 308 PM MDT SAT APR 9 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * PEAK WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 35 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * OTHER IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WHICH WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$ COZ090-KSZ001>003-014-015-028-029-042-NEZ079-080-100200- /O.CON.KGLD.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-110410T0200Z/ YUMA-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-LOGAN-GOVE- WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD... OBERLIN...COLBY...HOXIE...OAKLEY...QUINTER...LEOTI...BENKELMAN... TRENTON 308 PM MDT SAT APR 9 2011 /408 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT /9 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * TIMING/DURATION...SOUTHWEST WIND WILL BECOME GUSTY LATE THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE AROUND SUNSET. * PEAK WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * OTHER IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WHICH WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS MAY AFFECT TRAVEL...ESPECIALLY LIGHT WEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN WIND GUSTS WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
323 WWUS73 KGLD 100213 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 813 PM MDT SAT APR 9 2011 COZ091-092-KSZ013-027-041-100315- /O.EXP.KGLD.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110410T0200Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-SHERMAN-WALLACE-GREELEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURLINGTON...CHEYENNE WELLS... GOODLAND...SHARON SPRINGS...TRIBUNE 813 PM MDT SAT APR 9 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW WARNING CRITERIA. THEREFORE...THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ COZ090-KSZ001>003-014-015-028-029-042-NEZ079-080-100315- /O.EXP.KGLD.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-110410T0200Z/ YUMA-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-LOGAN-GOVE- WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD... OBERLIN...COLBY...HOXIE...OAKLEY...QUINTER...LEOTI...BENKELMAN... TRENTON 813 PM MDT SAT APR 9 2011 /913 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW CRITERIA. THEREFORE...THE ADVISORY WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ BULLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:35 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 16 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:35 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton | 5 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Kansas, 2011High Wind Warnings in Colorado, 2011Every high wind warning in 2011
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.