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Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS

October 15, 20248 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 15, 2024, 2:59 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 16, 2024, 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 15, 2024, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 16, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 16, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 12:00Z on 2024-10-15Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2024-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -104 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 15, 2:34 AM CDTFreeze WarningGLDDecatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 2 more30 hr
Oct 15, 2:49 AM CDTFire Weather WatchGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more24 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2024Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 2024Every red flag warning in 2024

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.