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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS

December 24, 2023Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this winter storm warning at Dec 24, 2023, 2:03 AM MST for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 9 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: Dec 24, 2023, 2:03 AM MST (09:03 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2023, 11:00 AM MST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 23, 10:47 PM MST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 10:47 PM MST, 3 hours 16 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
Dec 24, 2:03 AM MST	Winter Storm Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more	24 hr
Dec 24, 4:44 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	31 min
Dec 24, 4:58 AM MST	Snow Squall Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace	47 min
Dec 24, 5:46 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	59 min
Dec 24, 4:22 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	23 min

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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.