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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind watch at Apr 5, 2022, 1:56 PM CDT 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 Apr 7, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2022, 1:56 PM CDT (18:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 7, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2022, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 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 19:01 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 2927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 5, 12:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 12:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 5, 11:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1058 AM MDT TUE APR 5 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1035 AM NON-TSTM WND GST 4 NE IDALIA 39.75N 102.26W
04/05/2022 M52 MPH YUMA CO MESONET
MESONET STATION CO047 385N220 IDALIA.
&&Local storm report, Apr 5, 12:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1103 AM MDT TUE APR 5 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1053 AM NON-TSTM WND GST 1 NNE GOODLAND 39.37N 101.70W
04/05/2022 M53 MPH SHERMAN KS ASOS
ASOS STATION KGLD GOODLAND.
&&Local storm report, Apr 5, 12:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1109 AM MDT TUE APR 5 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1045 AM NON-TSTM WND GST 4 NE IDALIA 39.75N 102.26W
04/05/2022 M57 MPH YUMA CO MESONET
MESONET STATION CO047 385N220 IDALIA.
&&The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 4:28 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 16 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:28 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 40 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 39 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:02 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 14 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.