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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Goodland, KS

March 9, 20215 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this fire weather watch at Mar 9, 2021, 2:09 AM MST for 5 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Mar 10, 2021, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2021, 2:09 AM MST (09:09 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 10, 2021, 11:00 AM MST
Expired
Mar 9, 2021, 6:48 PM MST
In force
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

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

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 270 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2021-03-09Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2021-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 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.