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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Goodland, KS

January 9, 20137 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind watch at Jan 9, 2013, 2:36 PM CST for 7 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Jan 11, 2013, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 9, 2013, 2:36 PM CST (20:36 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 11, 2013, 8:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 11, 2013, 3:40 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2013-01-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2013-01-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -82 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 9, 12:37 PM CSTFreezing Rain AdvisoryGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more15 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Kansas, 2013High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2013Every high wind watch in 2013

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.