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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS

July 9, 1993Graham County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 1993, 2:13 AM CDT for Graham County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 1993, 2:13 AM CDT (07:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1993, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Graham County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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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, Jul 8, 11:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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, 11:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Norton	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

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.