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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS

March 30, 20245 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 30, 2024, 1:26 PM MDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Mar 31, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
Mar 30, 2024, 1:26 PM MDT (19:26 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 31, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 31, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 2024-03-30Temperature 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 2024-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 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
1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
359 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.