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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Goodland, KS

August 12, 1993Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 1993, 11:13 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1993, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1993, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rawlins County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1993-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 275 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1993-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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, Aug 12, 6:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-130100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
553 PM MDT (653 PM CDT) THU AUG 12 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL
11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT)...

AT 550 PM  MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO SEVERE WEATHER OVER
NORTHWEST KANSAS.  RADAR DOES INDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM  OVER
SOUTHWEST CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EASTERN COLORADO AND THIS STORM WAS MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER
EASTERN COLORADO WERE LOCATED 30 MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM
FORT MORGAN SOUTHEAST TO GRANADA IN CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST
COLORADO.  ALL OF THE STORMS APPEAR TO BE MO8VING TO THE NORTHEAST AT
15 TO 20 MPH.

JENNER
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 8:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-130200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
702 PM MDT (802 PM CDT) THU AUG 12 1993

....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT...

AT 700 PM MDT NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR OVER
NORTHWEST KANSAS.  SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EASTERN
COLORADO AND THEY ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 25 MPH.

JENNER
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 10:44 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita49 min
Aug 12, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne34 min
Aug 12, 11:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDSherman3 hr
Aug 12, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLincoln25 min
Aug 12, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln62 min
Aug 12, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson62 min
Aug 12, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson61 min
Aug 12, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert, Lincoln43 min
Aug 12, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson61 min
Aug 12, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLincoln39 min
Aug 12, 9:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson4 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.