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Wind Advisory 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Oct 13, 2013, 8:40 AM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 13, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2013, 8:40 AM CDT (13:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 13, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2013, 2:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 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
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:40 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
114 WWUS73 KGLD 131340 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 740 AM MDT SUN OCT 13 2013 ...WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ALONG THE COLORADO KANSAS BORDER LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON... .SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED TODAY AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE TO OUR EAST AND DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE INCREASES. COZ090>092-KSZ001-013-027-140000- /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0021.131013T1700Z-131014T0000Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN-WALLACE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... CHEYENNE WELLS...ST. FRANCIS...GOODLAND...SHARON SPRINGS 740 AM MDT SUN OCT 13 2013 /840 AM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MDT /NOON CDT/ THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MDT /NOON CDT/ THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING. * PEAK WINDS...45 TO 50 MPH. * TIMING/DURATION...LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * OTHER IMPACTS...BLOWING DUST MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE HALF MILE AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY OVER RECENTLY PLOWED FIELDS. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
636 WWUS73 KGLD 131950 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 150 PM MDT SUN OCT 13 2013 COZ090>092-KSZ001-013-027-132100- /O.CAN.KGLD.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-131014T0000Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN-WALLACE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... CHEYENNE WELLS...ST. FRANCIS...GOODLAND...SHARON SPRINGS 150 PM MDT SUN OCT 13 2013 /250 PM CDT SUN OCT 13 2013/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WINDS GUSTS OF 45 MPH OR GREATER ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$
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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.