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Dust Storm Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

April 29, 2014Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this dust storm warning at Apr 29, 2014, 8:18 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2014, 8:18 AM MDT (14:18 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2014, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 80 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dust storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this dust storm warning went out at Apr 29, 7:06 AM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 7:06 AM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 7:10 AM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
710 AM MDT TUE APR 29 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-301200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
710 AM MDT TUE APR 29 2014 /810 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

VERY WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY. A HIGH WIND
WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE
EXTENDING FROM BENKELMAN NEBRASKA TO TRIBUNE KANSAS. A WIND
ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS EAST OF THAT LINE. IN THE WARNING
AREA...SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50
MPH ARE ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR MORE WINDY CONDITIONS ON WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED BUT REPORTS OF MEASURED WIND
GUSTS OVER 55 MPH WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 29, 6:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
659 AM MDT TUE APR 29 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0326 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST BURLINGTON              39.31N 102.27W
04/29/2014  M62 MPH          KIT CARSON         CO   ASOS

&&

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 7:01 AM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
701 AM MDT TUE APR 29 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0344 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST SEIBERT                 39.30N 102.87W
04/29/2014  M62 MPH          KIT CARSON         CO   MESONET

&&

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 7:39 AM MDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
739 AM MDT TUE APR 29 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0738 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST NE KIT CARSON           38.77N 102.79W
04/29/2014  M55 MPH          CHEYENNE           CO   MESONET

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 7:55 AM MDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 8:02 AM MDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 8:12 AM MDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 9:16 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 4 more	22 hr

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Dust Storm Warnings in Colorado, 2014 Every dust storm warning in 2014

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.