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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 34 min |
| Aug 12, 11:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sherman | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert, Lincoln | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 9:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 4 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.