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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this high wind watch at Apr 15, 2024, 3:45 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska. It took effect at Apr 16, 2024, 8:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2024, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2024, 8:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2024, 8:37 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 237 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 15, 2:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 2:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 10:25 AM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:41 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 29 hr |
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.