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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

July 13, 1993Graham County, Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1993, 12:18 AM CDT for Graham County, Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1993, 12:18 AM CDT (05:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1993, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1993-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1618 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1993-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 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
1618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
5.5

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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 12, 7:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-130155-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
650 PM MDT (750 PM CDT) MON JUL 12 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT..MIDNIGHT
   CDT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 650 PM MDT..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS WERE
IN AN AREA 25 MILES WIDE THAT EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF
GOODLAND TO 75 MILES SOUTHWEST GOODLAND. THE STORMS WNERE MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 25 MPH.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS..ALTHOUGH..LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS MAY OCCUR WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS
THE REGION.

DORSEY
DORSEY

&
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 8:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-130300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
800 PM MDT (900 PM CDT) MON JUL 12 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT..MIDNIGHT
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 9:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-130330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
821 PM MDT (921 PM CDT) MON JUL 12 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A SMALL PART OF
NORTHWEST KANSAS..BUT REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE REGION UNTIL 11
PM MDTOR MIDNIGHT CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CHEYENNE AND
SHERMAN COUNTIES OF FAR NORTHWEST KANSAS BUT REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE
REMAINDER OF NORTHWEST KANSAS.

AT 820PM MDT..SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHWEST
KANSAS FROM WESTERN DECATUR COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO GREELEY COUNTY. THE
STRONGER STORMS WERE ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION
FROM WESTERN DECATUR COUNTY..WEST OF OBERLIN..TO NEAR OAKLEY IN
NORTHWEST GOVE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS.

DORSEY

&
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 10:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-130405-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
903 PM MDT (1003 PM CDT) MON JUL 12 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR MORE OF NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 9 PM MDT..MORE COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS HAVE BEEN ELIMATED FROM
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER THE WATCH INCLUDE..
CHEYENNE..SHERMAN..THOMAS..RAWLINS..GREELEY AND WALLACE. THOSE COUNTIES
STILL IN THE WATCH INCLUDE..DECATUR..SHERIDAN..GRAHAM..NORTON..GOVE..
WICHITA..AND LOGAN.

MOSTLY SHOWERS REMAIN OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AT 9 PM MDT...WITH A SMALL
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS NOTED ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION
IN SOUTHWEST SHERIDAN COUNTY SOUTH INTO GOVE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE
STORMS.

DORSEY

DORSEY

&
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 11:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-130500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT) MON JUL 12 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR
   PART OF NORTHWEST KANSAS...

ONLY 2 COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS REMAIN IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH..THOSE BEING..NORTON AND GRAHAM.

AT 11 PM CDT..A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST CORNER OF
GOVE COUNTY TO NEAR DIGHTON IN LANE COUNTY AND WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH/
EAST AT 25 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS.

ELSEWHERE..MOSTLY SHOWERS REMAINED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS IN
AN AREA ABOUT 40 MILES WIDE THAT EXTENDED FROM NORTON COUNTY INTO SOUTH/
WEST KANSAS WEST OF GARDEN CITY.

DORSEY

DORSEY

&
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 12:10 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-130600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1108 PM MDT (1208 AM CDT) MON JUL 12 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS EXPIRED AT MIDNIGHT
CDT AND WILL NOT BE RE-ISSUED.

AT MIDNIGHT CDT..SHOWERS AND A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE
FROM OBERLIN TO GOVE. TTHE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT..UNLESS THUNDERSTORMS RE-DEVELOP.

DORSEY

DORSEY

&

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 12:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGove, Logan3 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.