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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Goodland, KS

March 22, 2016Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

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.

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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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2016-03-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2016-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 1:27 AM CDTRed Flag WarningGLDGove, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more18 hr
Mar 22, 3:55 PM CDTBlizzard WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman33 hr
Mar 22, 3:55 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningGLDCheyenne6 hr
Mar 22, 3:55 PM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryGLDDecatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas33 hr
Mar 22, 4:05 PM CDTHigh Wind WarningGLDGove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Norton, Sheridan and 2 more33 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Nebraska, 2016Winter Storm Watches in Kansas, 2016Winter Storm Watches in Colorado, 2016Every winter storm watch in 2016

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.