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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Goodland, KS

June 16, 1996Decatur County, Norton County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1996-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1996-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
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

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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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur3 hr
Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDNorton3 hr
Jun 15, 10:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins, Sheridan, Thomas3 hr
Jun 16, 12:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Norton3 hr
Jun 16, 12:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins, Sheridan, Thomas3 hr
Jun 16, 4:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDNorton8 hr
Jun 16, 5:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Norton6 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.