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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1996, 11:43 AM CDT for Decatur County, Norton 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
- Jun 16, 1996, 11:43 AM CDT (16:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, KS, Norton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 11:09 AM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 11:09 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1009 AM MDT (1109 AM CDT) SUN JUN 16 1996 WILL INCREASE CLOUD COVER FOR TODAY ERN ZNS AND DROP HIGHS SLIGHTLY. SC STREAMING INTO FA SHOULD KEEP ABUNDANT CLOUDS OVER REGION. CLOUDS SUGGEST TEMPS BLO CURRENT PACKAGE. SOUNDINGS SUGGEST A MINOR THREAT OF STORMS REMAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL LEAVE IN SLIGHT CHANCE. GLD 080/059/088/061 22- HLC 078/063/088/063 22- CBfK 080/060/088/063 22- MCK 078/061/088/063 22- TRB 082/060/089/062 22- ITR 080/057/087/060 121 BARKER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 10:46 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-170600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 944 AM MDT (1044 AM CDT) SUN JUN 16 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR SEVERE WEATHER...HOWEVER SPOTTER REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT RIVER AND CREEK CONDITIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED. SYNOPSIS: A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE REGION. ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA WILL LEAD TO WIDESPREAD CLOUDINESS...BUT LITTLE IN THE WAY OF WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED. THERE REMAINS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...GENERALLY EAST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 83 THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. FLOODING WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION DURING THE DAY. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Norton | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Norton | 8 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.