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Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind chill watch at Dec 29, 2017, 1:18 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Dec 31, 2017, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2017, 1:18 PM CST (19:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 31, 2017, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 30, 2017, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 628 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 730 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 wind chill watch went out at Dec 29, 11:21 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 29, 11:21 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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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.