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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Goodland, KS

April 4, 202210 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 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 5, 12:17 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 512 E Mccook, NEASOS STATION KMCK MCCOOK AIRPORT.
Apr 5, 1:53 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 551 E Hill City, KSASOS STATION KHLC HILL CITY.
Apr 5, 1:53 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 551 Nne Goodland, KSASOS STATION KGLD GOODLAND.
Apr 5, 2:00 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 521 Se Colby, KSMESONET STATION FW8773 COLBY.
Apr 5, 2:15 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 573 Nnw Vernon, COWUNDERGROUND STATION KCOWRAY7.
Apr 5, 2:53 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 581 Nne Goodland, KSASOS STATION KGLD GOODLAND.
Apr 5, 2:55 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 542 Nw Wray, COAWOS STATION K2V5 2 NW WRAY.
Apr 5, 3:07 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 5217 N Flagler, COMESONET STATION EW7003 17 N FLAGLER.
Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 515 S Burlington, COASOS STATION KITR BURLINGTON CO AIRPORT.
Apr 5, 6:53 PM CDTNON-TSTM WND GST 541 E Hill City, KSASOS 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2022-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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 4, 1:53 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 1:53 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 2:19 PM CDTFire Weather WatchGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more14 hr
Apr 4, 2:22 PM CDTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne14 hr
Apr 4, 2:22 PM CDTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more14 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2022Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2022Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 2022Every red flag warning in 2022

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.