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Fire Weather Watch 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this fire weather watch at May 9, 2022, 2:01 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at May 11, 2022, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2022, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 11, 2022, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 10, 2022, 1:17 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 110 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at May 9, 1:25 PM MDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 1:25 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:01 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Greeley | 13 hr |
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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.