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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

August 10, 2021Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2021, 5:02 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 2021, 5:02 PM MDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2021, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 30

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 301 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -516 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 10, 2:49 PM MDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 2:49 PM MDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 11:57 AM MDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:34 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 5:02 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 6:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	24 min
Aug 9, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	30 min
Aug 9, 6:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	35 min
Aug 9, 7:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	9 min
Aug 9, 7:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	44 min
Aug 9, 8:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	44 min
Aug 9, 10:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	28 min
Aug 9, 11:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	44 min
Aug 9, 11:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	41 min
Aug 9, 11:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	41 min
Aug 10, 12:03 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	42 min
Aug 9, 10:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	35 min
Aug 10, 4:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	26 min
Aug 10, 5:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	31 min
Aug 10, 5:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	31 min
Aug 9, 6:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	43 min
Aug 9, 8:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	33 min
Aug 9, 9:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	29 min
Aug 9, 9:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	34 min
Aug 9, 10:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	44 min
Aug 9, 10:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	27 min
Aug 9, 11:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	40 min

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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.