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Hard Freeze Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

October 13, 20186 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this hard freeze warning at Oct 13, 2018, 8:04 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 14, 2018, 10:25 AM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 2018, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 14, 2018, 10:25 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 15, 2018, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
23 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2018-10-14Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2018-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 1:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan25 min
Oct 14, 2:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita36 min
Oct 14, 2:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita32 min

Nearby

Hard Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 2018Hard Freeze Warnings in Colorado, 2018Every hard freeze warning in 2018

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.