Alert archive / Colorado / Blizzard Watches in 2013
Blizzard Watch 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this blizzard watch at Feb 23, 2013, 2:00 PM MST for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 24, 2013, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2013, 2:00 PM MST (21:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2013, 8:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2013, 5:25 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2259 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2:00 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 33 hr |
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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.