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Red Flag Warning 30, NWS Goodland, KS

May 18, 202213 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at May 18, 2022, 3:10 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 May 19, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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: May 18, 2022, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
In effect from: May 19, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 19, 2022, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 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 20:10 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, 8.2 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.

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: 2173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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 May 18, 2:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 2:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 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
May 17, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	28 min
May 17, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	31 min
May 17, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	51 min
May 17, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	27 min
May 17, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	31 min
May 17, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	25 min
May 17, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Gove	12 min
May 17, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	26 min
May 17, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	36 min
May 17, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	34 min
May 17, 8:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	36 min
May 17, 8:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	22 min
May 17, 9:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	29 min
May 17, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	44 min
May 17, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	17 min
May 17, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	14 min
May 17, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	34 min
May 17, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	25 min
May 17, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	37 min
May 17, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	33 min
May 18, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	27 min
May 18, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	38 min
May 18, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	35 min
May 18, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	27 min
May 18, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	24 min
May 17, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	30 min
May 17, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	31 min
May 17, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	57 min
May 17, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	45 min
May 17, 8:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	8 min
May 17, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	57 min
May 18, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	57 min
May 18, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	58 min
May 18, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	62 min
May 18, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	23 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.