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Red Flag Warning 25, NWS Goodland, KS

October 6, 2023Graham County, Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 6, 2023, 3:07 AM CDT for Graham County, Norton County, Kansas. It took effect at Oct 6, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
Oct 6, 2023, 3:07 AM CDT (08:07 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 6, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 6, 2023, 6:33 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2023-10-06Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2023-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 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
Oct 6, 3:02 AM CDTFreeze WarningGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more31 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2023Every red flag warning in 2023

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.