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Fire Weather Watch 12, NWS Goodland, KS

October 8, 20214 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this fire weather watch at Oct 8, 2021, 3:40 AM MDT for 4 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 9, 2021, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 8, 2021, 3:40 AM MDT (09:40 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 9, 2021, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Oct 9, 2021, 2:55 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 00:00Z on 2021-10-08Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2021-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 8, 1:02 PM MDTRed Flag WarningGLDGreeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita29 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.