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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

May 26, 1996Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1996, 5:47 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1996, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -141 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 26, 3:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
203 PM MDT (303 PM CDT) SUN MAY 26 1996

MAIN PROBLEM FOR TODAY IS POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS
EVENING THAN SPEED OF CLEARING LATER IN THE PACKAGE.

CONVECTION BREAKING OUT QUICKLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO AS UPPER
LOW MOVES TOWARD AREA. POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER SIGNIFICANTLY
HIGHER WHERE SUN HAS BROKEN THROUGH ACROSS SOUTHERN FA AND WITH
SPEED OF MOVEMENT...STORMS MAY YET BE BORDERLINE SEVERE INTO CENTRAL
FA AS THEY MOVE OVER COLD DOME BEFORE WEAKENING INTO STRONG
CATAGORY. WILL MENTION SEVERE IN FORECAST FOR ALL BUT NRN ZONES.

WITH NORTHWEST FLOW AND PLENTY OF MOISTURE BEHIND LOW...WOULD EXPECT
DRYING PROCESS TO BE QUITE SLOW. FAVOR ETA SPEED AND TIMING GIVEN
ITS FARTHEST SOUTH POSITION WITH SURFACE LOW AND 850 TEMP
INITIALIZATION WHICH WAS COOLEST AND AGREES BEST WITH REALITY. WILL
KEEP MENTION OF SHOWERS INTO MONDAY EVENING...CENTRAL AND EAST.

GLD  47/62/41/69 +43  HLC 52/63/47/70  +53
CBK  49/63/44/70 +43  MCK 50/60/43/67  +53
TRB  49/68/45/77 +31  ITR 47/62/43/69  +41

BARKER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 2:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
COZ092-KSZ029-041-042-262035-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
131 PM MDT (231 PM CDT) SUN MAY 26 1996

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
COLORADO AND WESTERN KANSAS...SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE CO IN EASTERN
COLORADO AND GREELEY...WITCHA AND GOVE COUNTIES IN KANSAS...UNTIL 7
AM MDT (8 AM CDT)

AT PRESENT TIME NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE WATCH
AREA.  HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS
DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES.  DUE TO THE GROUND ALREADY
BEING SATURATED THEIR IS A POSSIBILITY  OF FLOODING OF LOW LYING
AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS.

THE KEY TO SURVIVAL IS ADVANCED PLANNING.  YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE
THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR
ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION WILL BE CONTAINED
IN SHORDT TERM FORECASTS.

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

JENNER
Special weather statement, May 26, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ079>081-262245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
344 PM MDT (444 PM CDT) SUN MAY 26 1996

...A SEVERE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT)...

A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER CURRENTLY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS
EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE NIGHT HELPING
DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA.  WITH STORMS THAT DEVELOP TONIGHT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF
SEVERE WEATHER.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. WHEN
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRRING...GO TO THE NEAREST
 STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD STAY IN THEIR CARS AND NOT DRIVE INTO LOW
WATER CROSSINGS.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION WILL BE CONTAINED
IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS.

MARTELLO
Special weather statement, May 26, 4:47 PM CDT, 1 hour before
KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ079>081-262245-

CORRECTED FOR WORDING

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
344 PM MDT (444 PM CDT) SUN MAY 26 1996

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT
(11 PM CDT)...

A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER CURRENTLY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS
EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE NIGHT HELPING
DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA.  WITH STORMS THAT DEVELOP TONIGHT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF
SEVERE WEATHER.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. WHEN
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRRING...GO TO THE NEAREST
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR

FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION WILL BE CONTAINED
IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS.

MARTELLO
Special weather statement, May 26, 5:40 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
COZ092-262345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
439 PM MDT SUN MAY 26 1996

...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER A THREAT TO SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY
AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH FOR
THAT AREA.

WIDESPREAD RAIN WITH SCATTERED EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO
PERSIST THROUGH EARLY EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO
HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40
MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE
AND SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE.

BARKER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley62 min
May 26, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan62 min
May 26, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita64 min
May 26, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Wallace62 min
May 26, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley62 min
May 26, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove62 min
May 26, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove66 min
May 26, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan65 min
May 26, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan62 min
May 26, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur64 min
May 26, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan63 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.