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Wind Advisory 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Apr 6, 2012, 3:19 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2012, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 2176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
638 WWUS73 KGLD 062019 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 219 PM MDT FRI APR 6 2012 COZ090>092-KSZ001-013-027-NEZ079-070100- /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0021.120406T2019Z-120407T0100Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN-WALLACE-DUNDY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... CHEYENNE WELLS...ST. FRANCIS...GOODLAND...SHARON SPRINGS... BENKELMAN 219 PM MDT FRI APR 6 2012 /319 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING. * PEAK WINDS...SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * TIMING/DURATION...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND WILL WEAKEN IN THE EARLY EVENING. 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. && $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
476 WWUS73 KGLD 070054 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 654 PM MDT FRI APR 6 2012 COZ090>092-KSZ001-013-027-NEZ079-070200- /O.EXP.KGLD.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-120407T0100Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN-WALLACE-DUNDY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... CHEYENNE WELLS...ST. FRANCIS...GOODLAND...SHARON SPRINGS... BENKELMAN 654 PM MDT FRI APR 6 2012 /754 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... WINDS WILL SLOWLY DECREASE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING AND WIDESPREAD ADVISORY CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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.