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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS

June 8, 1995Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1995, 5:05 AM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 5:05 AM CDT (10:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 10:05 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3672 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1265 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
12.9

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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.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 8, 3:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
215 AM MDT (315 AM CDT) THU JUN 8 1995

FIRST PERIOD PROBLEM WILL BE TEMPS. SECOND PERIOD PROBLEM WILL BE
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE AND HEAVY RAINS.

PREFER ETA SOLUTION...ALTHOUGH IT MAY BE A LITTLE SLOW WITH UPPER
LEVEL SOLUTIONS...BASED ON PAST COUPLE OF DAYS PERFORMANCE AND
DISCUSSION ON PMDSPD.  MOST WORRISOME FEATURE IS GOOD WARM AIR
ADVECTION AT 850 MB BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN 850 MB TEMP...IMPLYING
ISENTROPIC LIFT.  500 MB RIDGE IS NEGATIVELY TILTED DOWNSTREAM...AND
DIFFLUENT FLOW IS EXPECTED OVER CWA.  ADD LARGE VORTICITY CENTER
SWINGING TOWARD CWA...BRINGING DIFFERENTIAL PVA BY LATE
AFTERNOON.  ADD SURFACE FRONT TO THE MIX AND SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING
AND MOVING TOWARD CWA DURING THIS TIME FRAME...AND I SMELL TROUBLE.

NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT DETAILS DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER IN THE
AREA...BUT WILL HEDGE TOWARD WARMER TEMPERATURES SOUTH AND CENTRAL
CWA...COOLER TEMPS IN NORTH.  WILL DOWNPLAY DAYTIME GUIDANCE
POPS...BUT GO ABOVE THEM FOR SECOND PERIOD.

GLD 71/53 36  HLC 77/57 35
CBK 72/54 36  MCK 74/53 36
TRB 74/54 34  5C0 69/50 46

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
300 AM MDT (400 AM CDT) THU JUN 8 1995

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 572 FOR THE EAST CENTRAL COLORADO BORDER
COUNTIES AND NORTHWEST KANSAS HAS EXPIRED...
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 577 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM MDT (10 AM
CDT) FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 AM MDT (10 AM CDT) FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY...AND WICHITA.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO
OCCUR.  BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING
IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan62 min
Jun 7, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas65 min
Jun 7, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan61 min
Jun 8, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace64 min
Jun 8, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace64 min
Jun 8, 1:04 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley46 min
Jun 8, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace46 min
Jun 8, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan69 min
Jun 8, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan46 min
Jun 8, 2:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove77 min
Jun 8, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley64 min
Jun 8, 3:36 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley49 min
Jun 8, 4:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan64 min
Jun 8, 4:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham33 min
Jun 8, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan48 min
Jun 8, 5:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan6 hr
Jun 8, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.