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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

January 19, 20239 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this winter storm warning at Jan 19, 2023, 3:00 PM CST for 9 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Jan 20, 2023, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 27 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
Jan 19, 2023, 3:00 PM CST (21:00 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 20, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 21, 2023, 9:00 PM CST
In force
27 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 2023-01-19Temperature 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 2023-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -166 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
919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-107 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
Jan 19, 4:02 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchGLDGove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman and 3 more33 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Kansas, 2023Winter Storm Warnings in Colorado, 2023Every winter storm 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.