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Wind Chill Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

February 21, 2023Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind chill warning at Feb 21, 2023, 1:30 PM MST for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It took effect at Feb 22, 2023, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for 18 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
Feb 21, 2023, 1:30 PM MST (20:30 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 22, 2023, 5:00 PM MST
Expired
Feb 23, 2023, 11:00 AM MST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-02-21Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-02-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
2596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
295 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
Feb 21, 1:30 PM MSTWind Chill AdvisoryGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more46 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Warnings in Colorado, 2023Wind Chill Warnings in Nebraska, 2023Every wind chill 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.