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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 12:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 3 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.