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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 11, 2011, 2:10 PM CST for Decatur County, Norton County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2011, 2:10 PM CST (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2011, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Decatur County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
030 WWUS73 KGLD 112010 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 110 PM MST FRI MAR 11 2011 KSZ002>004-NEZ079>081-120000- /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0003.110311T2010Z-110312T0000Z/ RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATWOOD...OBERLIN...NORTON...BENKELMAN... TRENTON...MCCOOK 110 PM MST FRI MAR 11 2011 /210 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING/DURATION...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * PEAK WINDS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * OTHER IMPACTS...THESE STRONG WINDS MAY CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST IN OPEN...UNPROTECTED AREAS. BE CAUTIOUS AND BE PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES IF APPROACHING AN AREA OF BLOWING DUST. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
201 WWUS73 KGLD 112358 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 458 PM MST FRI MAR 11 2011 KSZ002>004-NEZ079>081-120100- /O.EXP.KGLD.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-110312T0000Z/ RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATWOOD...OBERLIN...NORTON...BENKELMAN... TRENTON...MCCOOK 458 PM MST FRI MAR 11 2011 /558 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 10:54 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Greeley, Norton, Rawlins and 4 more | 7 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.