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Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS

May 5, 2023Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at May 5, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at May 6, 2023, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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 5, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT (18:00 UTC)
In effect from: May 6, 2023, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 6, 2023, 9:03 PM MDT
In force: 10 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 17:58 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 1428 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 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 4, 5:21 PM MDT, 18 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 5:21 PM MDT, 18 hours 39 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 4, 7:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	37 min
May 5, 3:02 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	4 hr
May 5, 4:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	25 min
May 5, 4:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	25 min
May 4, 9:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	44 min
May 5, 4:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	23 min
May 5, 4:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	43 min
May 5, 4:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	16 min
May 5, 5:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	20 min
May 5, 5:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	13 min
May 5, 5:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	21 min
May 5, 5:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	16 min
May 5, 5:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	36 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.