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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 4, 2022, 2:19 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Apr 5, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. 10 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2022, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 5, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 12:17 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 51 | 2 E Mccook, NE | ASOS STATION KMCK MCCOOK AIRPORT. |
| Apr 5, 1:53 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 55 | 1 E Hill City, KS | ASOS STATION KHLC HILL CITY. |
| Apr 5, 1:53 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 55 | 1 Nne Goodland, KS | ASOS STATION KGLD GOODLAND. |
| Apr 5, 2:00 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 52 | 1 Se Colby, KS | MESONET STATION FW8773 COLBY. |
| Apr 5, 2:15 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 57 | 3 Nnw Vernon, CO | WUNDERGROUND STATION KCOWRAY7. |
| Apr 5, 2:53 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 58 | 1 Nne Goodland, KS | ASOS STATION KGLD GOODLAND. |
| Apr 5, 2:55 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 54 | 2 Nw Wray, CO | AWOS STATION K2V5 2 NW WRAY. |
| Apr 5, 3:07 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 52 | 17 N Flagler, CO | MESONET STATION EW7003 17 N FLAGLER. |
| Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 51 | 5 S Burlington, CO | ASOS STATION KITR BURLINGTON CO AIRPORT. |
| Apr 5, 6:53 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 54 | 1 E Hill City, KS | ASOS STATION KHLC HILL CITY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 4, 1:53 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 1:53 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 4, 2:19 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:22 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne | 14 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:22 PM CDT | High Wind 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.