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Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 29, 2023, 2:32 AM CDT for Decatur County, Graham County, Norton County, Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Apr 29, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 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 29, 2023, 2:32 AM CDT (07:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 29, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2023, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:29 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.