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Winter Storm Watch 8, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this winter storm watch at Dec 18, 2011, 5:11 AM CST for 9 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Dec 19, 2011, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 2011, 5:11 AM CST (11:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 19, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2011, 5:08 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 2508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Kansas, 2011Winter Storm Watches in Colorado, 2011Every winter storm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.