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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS

June 26, 1993Decatur County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1993, 5:12 PM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1993, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1993, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Decatur County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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, Jun 26, 11:12 AM CDT, 6 hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

KSZ001-002-004-005-007-261955-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1250 PM MDT (150 PM CDT) SAT JUN 26 1993

...VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ENTERING NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 1248 PM MDT (148 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ON THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BORDER
ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF ATWOOD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY: HEAVY
RAIN...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

JACKSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	62 min
Jun 26, 2:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	69 min
Jun 26, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	61 min
Jun 26, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	66 min
Jun 26, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	64 min
Jun 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Rawlins	3 hr
Jun 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	55 min
Jun 26, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	61 min
Jun 26, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	55 min
Jun 26, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	68 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.