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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 23, 2020, 12:31 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 23, 2020, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 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 23, 2020, 12:31 PM CDT (17:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 23, 2020, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2020, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 24 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 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.