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Wind Advisory 36, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Dec 3, 2012, 3:49 AM MST for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 8 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It took effect at Dec 3, 2012, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 3, 2012, 3:49 AM MST (10:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 3, 2012, 6:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Dec 3, 2012, 11:41 AM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
846 WWUS73 KGLD 031049 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 349 AM MST MON DEC 3 2012 COZ090>092-KSZ001-002-013-014-027-028-041-042-NEZ079-080-031900- /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0036.121203T1300Z-121203T1900Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-SHERMAN-THOMAS- WALLACE-LOGAN-GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... CHEYENNE WELLS...ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...GOODLAND...COLBY... SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY...TRIBUNE...LEOTI...BENKELMAN...TRENTON 349 AM MST MON DEC 3 2012 /449 AM CST MON DEC 3 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MST /1 PM CST/ TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MST /1 PM CST/ TODAY. * TIMING/DURATION...STRONGEST WIND WILL OCCUR EARLY THIS MORNING AND THEN SLOWLY DECREASE BY AFTERNOON. * PEAK WINDS...SUSTAINED WIND OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH BRIEF GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH POSSIBLE. * OTHER IMPACTS...AREAS OF BLOWING DUST NEAR OPEN FIELDS WITH VISIBILITY BELOW 1 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
774 WWUS73 KGLD 031841 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1141 AM MST MON DEC 3 2012 COZ090>092-KSZ001-002-013-014-027-028-041-042-NEZ079-080-031945- /O.CAN.KGLD.WI.Y.0036.000000T0000Z-121203T1900Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-SHERMAN-THOMAS- WALLACE-LOGAN-GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... CHEYENNE WELLS...ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...GOODLAND...COLBY... SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY...TRIBUNE...LEOTI...BENKELMAN...TRENTON 1141 AM MST MON DEC 3 2012 /1241 PM CST MON DEC 3 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON. $$ MENTZER
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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.