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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this fire weather watch at Mar 5, 2021, 2:42 AM CST for Cheyenne County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 6, 2021, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2021, 2:42 AM CST (08:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 6, 2021, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2021, 3:09 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2:46 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins, Sherman | 28 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.