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Frost Advisory 7, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this frost advisory at Oct 14, 2020, 3:52 AM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 15, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2020, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 15, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2020, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 3736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 13, 6:53 PM CDT, 8 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 6:53 PM CDT, 8 hours 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 3:52 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | GLD | Yuma | 13 hr |
| Oct 14, 4:25 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | GLD | Yuma | 17 hr |
Nearby
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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.