Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1988, 1:42 PM CDT for Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1988, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1988, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1259 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1232 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER A SMALL PART OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 1232 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS NEAR OBERLIN IN DECATUR COUNTY AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATWOOD IN SOUTHEAST RAWLINS COUNTY. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...HEAVY RAIN ACROSS DECATUR AND EASTERN RAWLINS COUNTIES MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG SAPPA CREEK. PERSONS NEAR THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGH GROUND SHOULD ANY FLOODING TAKE PLACE. WORKMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
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.