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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1996, 5:51 PM 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, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1996, 12:00 AM 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 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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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, 11:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.