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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 1993, 11:39 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1993, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1993, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Norton County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 2676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 8, 5:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-082340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 436 PM MDT (536 PM CDT) THU JUL 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT( 9 PM MDT)... AT 425 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 40 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON COLORADO. A TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF THE STORM WOULD CONTINUE ITS PATH THE STORM WILL CROSS INTO WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY WEST OF GOODLAND BY AROUND 525 PM MDT. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. HGJ/RB
Local storm report, Jul 8, 11:16 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton, Phillips | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rooks | 68 min |
| Jul 8, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 11:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Phillips, Rooks | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Phillips | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 69 min |
| Jul 9, 2:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Rooks | 6 hr |
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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.