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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 14, 2020, 3:25 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 15, 2020, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 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 14, 2020, 3:25 PM MDT (21:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 15, 2020, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2020, 8:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Yuma County, CO, Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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 (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 3629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 13, 5:53 PM MDT, 21 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 5:53 PM MDT, 21 hours 32 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2:52 AM MDT | Frost Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Norton, Rawlins, Sherman and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:52 AM MDT | Freeze Watch | GLD | Yuma | 13 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Colorado, 2020Freeze Warnings in Nebraska, 2020Every freeze warning in 2020
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.