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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Goodland, KS

September 28, 2020Cheyenne County, Greeley County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this frost advisory at Sep 28, 2020, 3:22 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Greeley County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Sep 29, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 28, 2020, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 29, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired
Sep 29, 2020, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2020-09-28Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2020-09-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
109 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Sep 28, 2:51 PM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 2:51 PM CDT, 31 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.