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Fire Weather Watch 10, NWS Goodland, KS

April 30, 20214 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this fire weather watch at Apr 30, 2021, 2:18 PM MDT for 4 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It took effect at May 1, 2021, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 2021, 2:18 PM MDT (20:18 UTC)
In effect from
May 1, 2021, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 1, 2021, 2:21 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2021-04-30Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2021-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 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.