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Wind Chill Advisory 8, NWS Goodland, KS

November 12, 2014Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind chill advisory at Nov 12, 2014, 6:23 AM CST for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 12, 2014, 6:23 AM CST (12:23 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2014, 11:23 AM CST
In force: 5 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, Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 102 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 306 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 wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Nov 12, 5:34 AM CST, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 5:34 AM CST, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 12, 4:12 AM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
312 AM MST WED NOV 12 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-131015-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
312 AM MST WED NOV 12 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

WIND CHILL VALUES WILL BE BETWEEN 10 BELOW AND ZERO THROUGH THE
DAY TODAY...DROPPING TO NEAR 15 BELOW TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...

WIND CHILL VALUES WILL BE NEAR 15 BELOW THURSDAY MORNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 12, 2:25 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 3 more	18 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Kansas, 2014 Wind Chill Advisories in Colorado, 2014 Wind Chill Advisories in Nebraska, 2014 Every wind chill advisory 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.