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Red Flag Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS

April 28, 2022Greeley County, Wichita County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 28, 2022, 1:16 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wichita County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 29, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2022, 1:16 PM MDT (19:16 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 29, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 29, 2022, 4:22 PM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 28, 11:07 AM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 11:07 AM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 12:57 PM MDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1257 PM MDT THU APR 28 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1053 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 ESE WALLACE           38.90N 101.56W
04/22/2022                   WALLACE            KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            8 POWER POLES KNOCKED DOWN NEAR WALLACE
            CEMETERY.

&&

RRH

Local storm report, Apr 28, 12:58 PM MDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1258 PM MDT THU APR 28 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1051 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 WSW WALLACE           38.90N 101.63W
04/22/2022                   WALLACE            KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            A FEW POWER POLES DOWN.

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RRH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 2:58 AM MDT	High Wind Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	22 hr
Apr 28, 5:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	43 min

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.