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Freeze Watch 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this freeze watch at Oct 20, 2021, 3:54 AM CDT for Cheyenne County, Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 21, 2021, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 20, 2021, 3:54 AM CDT (08:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 21, 2021, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2021, 3:28 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Oct 20, 3:47 AM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 3:47 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 19, 10:50 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Goodland KS 950 PM MDT Tue Oct 19 2021 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-210400- Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas- Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock- Red Willow- 950 PM MDT Tue Oct 19 2021 /1050 PM CDT Tue Oct 19 2021/ This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska... northwest Kansas and east central Colorado. .DAY ONE...TODAY... No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... Elevated fire weather conditions are possible Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon west of a line from Benkelman to Burlington and Kit Carson. Elevated to near critical fire weather conditions are possible Monday afternoon across far eastern Colorado and along and west of Kansas Highway 27 Tuesday afternoon. The next best chance for frost and freezing temperatures across the Tri-State area will be Wednesday night through Thursday morning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected today or tonight.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 3:54 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 29 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.