Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS
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 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.
- 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
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 ENTWISTLE :jk#0q2<HJ'PXOfj|f\cXF6.b*JN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-081505- 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. ENTWISTLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 1:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 77 min |
| Jun 8, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 3:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 5:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 30 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.