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High Wind Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind warning at Jun 2, 2012, 7:16 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 79 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2012, 7:16 PM MDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2012, 8:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Greeley County, KS, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
263 WWUS73 KGLD 030116 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 716 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012 KSZ027-041-030300- /O.NEW.KGLD.HW.W.0009.120603T0116Z-120603T0300Z/ WALLACE-GREELEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHARON SPRINGS...TRIBUNE 716 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * PEAK WINDS... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER COUPLE OF HOURS BEHIND A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH HAVE EXITED THE AREA. OCCASIONALLY MODERATE RAINFALL WILL ALSO OCCUR. * TIMING/DURATION...WINDS WILL DIMINISH AFTER 9 PM. * OTHER IMPACTS...AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WITH VISIBILITY LESS THAN A MILE. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
062 WWUS73 KGLD 030235 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 835 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012 KSZ027-041-030345- /O.CAN.KGLD.HW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120603T0300Z/ WALLACE-GREELEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHARON SPRINGS...TRIBUNE 835 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED ACROSS THE AREA AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THE REST OF THE NIGHT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 6:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 20 min |
| Jun 2, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 6:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 17 min |
| Jun 2, 6:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 23 min |
| Jun 2, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 67 min |
| Jun 2, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan | 53 min |
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.