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Red Flag Warning 31, NWS Goodland, KS

May 28, 2022Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at May 28, 2022, 2:44 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at May 28, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT. 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 28, 2022, 2:44 AM MDT (08:44 UTC)
In effect from
May 28, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 28, 2022, 7:42 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2022-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 171 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2022-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 6:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne28 min
May 27, 9:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita28 min
May 27, 6:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson37 min
May 27, 6:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma30 min
May 27, 6:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne28 min
May 27, 7:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne32 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.