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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS

July 7, 1996Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1996, 5:23 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 1996, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1996, 6:25 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
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 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -411 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 11.6

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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 Jul 7, 3:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
222 PM MDT (322 PM CDT) SUN JUL 7 1996

...TIMING OF FROPA...LINGERING CLOUDS/PCPN CHCS APR TO BE
FCST CHALLENGES THIS SHIFT...

  GOING FCST FOR TONITE LUKD FINE AND WENT W/50 POPS ALL BUT SRNMOST
ZNS. 12HR THKNS DIFFL AND SFC PATRN SCENARIO OF MOISTURE/BNDRIES
SCENARIO SIMILAR TO LAST EVE SO HAV SUM CONFIDENCE THAT NRN ZNS
HAV GOOD CHC FOR PCPN. WITH FROPA NORTH...WUD EXPECT THINGS TO MOV
CLOSER TO CWA AS NITE WEARS ON.
  BEYOND FIRST PD...MY FCST IS KEYED ON THE TIMING OF THE COLD
FRONT. BASED ON 84T...BAROCLINIC ZN SETTING UP TO NW AND BLV
CONVECTION TONITE WIL ASSIST FROPA TO SLIP ACRS HIER TERRAIN THRU CO
ZNS 90/91...NE ZNS 79/80...KS ZNS 1/2 BY/NR SUNRISE. REINFORCING
NLY BNDRY LYR FLO TO FOLLOW AND BE A TAD GUSTY ABT 1/2 OF OF
MONDAY...BUT SHUD DIMINISH AND HOPEFULLY CLR OUT THINGS. AM BETTING
THIS NRLY FLO AND LWR DPS WIL SHUT OFF PCPN CHCS AND AS WINDS GO L/V
MON NITE CLRG WIL DROP TEMPS INTO MID 50S MOST LOCALES.
  HAV LEFT RESIDUAL POPS IN KS ZNS 4/16/41/42 FOR LIFT AHD OF FROPA
AND LINGERING CLOUDS IN CONVECTION OVRNITE. DONT THINK UPSLOP TO
MAKE THINGS MESSY ALL DAY...SO IM IN GENRL AGREEMENT W/MOS NMBRS.
BUT WILL GO A PT OR TWO LWR FOR MINS WITH CLRG AND A PT HIER
FOR MAXES FOR SUM DAYTIME SUNSHINE. REGARDS TO TOP/GID...

GLD  064/080/054/081 5-00  HLC 067/082/056/083 5200
CBK  066/081/057/082 5-00  MCK 062/080/057/082 50-0
TRB  065/083/054/0"84 420-  ITR 063/078/054/080 5100
VOJTESAK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

COZ090>092-080415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
312 PM MDT SUN JUL 7 1996

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT FOR YUMA...KIT
CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO...

A LINE OF STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST OF LIMON WILL BE
MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 TO 20 MPH DURING THE NEXT 3 TO 6 HOURS.

THIS LINE OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AS IT MOVES TOWARDS THE
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER. LARGE HAIL...TORRENTIAL
RAINFALL... AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

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.

VOJTESAK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	62 min
Jul 7, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	46 min
Jul 7, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	62 min
Jul 7, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman	66 min
Jul 7, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	34 min
Jul 7, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	50 min
Jul 7, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	62 min
Jul 7, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	64 min
Jul 6, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	64 min
Jul 7, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	58 min
Jul 7, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	65 min
Jul 7, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	60 min
Jul 7, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	64 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.