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Winter Weather Advisory 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 13, 2021, 3:05 AM CST for 13 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Feb 13, 2021, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2021, 3:05 AM CST (09:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2021, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2021, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Feb 13, 3:00 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 3:00 AM CST, 5 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 12, 10:06 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:05 AM CST | Wind Chill Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 3 days |
| Feb 13, 1:55 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace, Wichita | 22 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.