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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind watch at Jun 8, 2014, 12:56 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jun 8, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2014, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 8, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jun 8, 4:35 AM CDT, 8 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 4:35 AM CDT, 8 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 11:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1055 AM MDT SUN JUN 8 2014 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-091215- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1055 AM MDT SUN JUN 8 2014 /1155 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG AND WEST OF A YUMA COLORADO TO LEOTI KANSAS LINE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS...WITH A LOW CHANCE OF A BRIEF TORNADO. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TONIGHT. GENERALLY 1 TO 2 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED...WITH LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ON MONDAY WILL GUST UP TO 60 MPH IN NORTHEAST COLORADO AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 25 IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. AFTER A DRY TUESDAY...THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 18 min |
| Jun 8, 4:15 AM CDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 39 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 6:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 67 min |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Kansas, 2014High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2014High Wind Watches in Nebraska, 2014Every high wind watch 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.