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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 28, 2012, 6:02 PM CST for 11 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2012, 6:02 PM CST (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2012, 8:14 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 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
- 3640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
091 WWUS73 KGLD 290002 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 502 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2012 COZ092-KSZ002>004-014>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ081-290300- /O.EXP.KGLD.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120229T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0014.120229T0002Z-120229T0300Z/ CHEYENNE CO-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE- LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHEYENNE WELLS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN... NORTON...COLBY...HOXIE...HILL CITY...SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY... QUINTER...TRIBUNE...LEOTI...MCCOOK 502 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2012 /602 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST /9 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST /9 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. * TIMING/DURATION...WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 9 PM CST. * PEAK WINDS...WESTERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * OTHER IMPACTS...BLOWING DUST WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A MILE 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. && $$ COZ090-091-KSZ001-013-NEZ079-080-290115- /O.EXP.KGLD.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120229T0000Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... ST. FRANCIS...GOODLAND...BENKELMAN...TRENTON 502 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2012 /602 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... A COLD FRONT HAS BEGUN TO MOVE OVER THE AREA...ALLOWING WINDS TO DECREASE BELOW WARNING LEVELS. THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED. $$
1 follow-up statement
963 WWUS73 KGLD 290214 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 714 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2012 COZ092-KSZ002>004-014>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ081-290315- /O.CAN.KGLD.WI.Y.0014.000000T0000Z-120229T0300Z/ CHEYENNE CO-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE- LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHEYENNE WELLS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN... NORTON...COLBY...HOXIE...HILL CITY...SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY... QUINTER...TRIBUNE...LEOTI...MCCOOK 714 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2012 /814 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS THE AREA...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 11:27 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 2 more | 5 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.