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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this winter storm watch at Mar 22, 2016, 4:23 AM CDT for Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 23, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2016, 4:23 AM CDT (09:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 23, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2016, 3:55 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:21 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 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 3875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 22, 4:02 AM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 4:02 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 1:27 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Gove, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:55 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman | 33 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:55 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:55 PM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 33 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:05 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Norton, Sheridan and 2 more | 33 hr |
Nearby
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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.