Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 1992, 6:30 AM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1992, 6:30 AM CDT (11:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1992, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Decatur County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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
Local storm report, Aug 7, 12:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1033 PM MST THU AUG 06 1992
STORM REPORTS FOR THU AUGUST 6 1992
TIME MST COUNTY LOCATION REPORT
2028 MST RAWLINS 9E ATWOOD HAIL .75
2102 MST DECATUR 5W NORCATUR TSTM WIND 60 MPH ROCKING
CARS AND TRUCKS ON HWY.
2125 MST NORTON NORTON TSTM WIND 60-70 MPH.
221"2 MST PHILLIPS PRAIRIE VIEW TSTM WIND 60-70 MPH.
2220 MST PHILLIPS PHILLIPSBURG TSTM WIND 70 MPH. POWER
OUTAGES & TREE LIMBS DOWN
MYERSSpecial weather statement, Aug 7, 12:44 AM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
KSZ004-007-070645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1144 PM MDT (1244 AM CDT) THU AUG 6 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PHILLIPS COUNTY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED TO THE EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG WITH HEAVY RAIN..DEADLY LIGHTNING AND WINDS GUSTING TO 40 MPH REPORTED IN THE PHILLIPSBURG AND KIRWIN AREA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYS NEAR HILL CITY TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG. MOVMENT WAS EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. HEAVY RAINS..DEADLY LIGHTNING..GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS WEBSTER RESERVOIR AND STOCKTON BY 1AM CDT. FREIBURGER D
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:29 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
KSZ008-070730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1229 AM MDT (129 AM CDT) FRI AUG 7 1992 AT 128 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HERE IN GOODLAND UNLESS THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOP. JENNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 68 min |
| Aug 6, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Phillips | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 2:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur | 4 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.