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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

November 24, 20198 counties in Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this winter storm warning at Nov 24, 2019, 2:58 PM CST for 8 counties in Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Nov 26, 2019, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 20 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
Nov 24, 2019, 2:58 PM CST (20:58 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 26, 2019, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Nov 26, 2019, 7:56 PM CST
In force
20 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2019-11-24Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2019-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
2558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.