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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 1996, 8:12 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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
- Sep 2, 1996, 8:12 PM MDT (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1996, 11:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greeley County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 030212 FFWGLD KSC071-203-030515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 812 PM MDT (912 PM CDT) MON SEP 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM MDT (1215 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN GREELEY COUNTY ...SOUTHERN WICHITA COUNTY AT 810 PM MDT (910 PM CDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT AS MUCH AS THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN GREELEY AND SOUTHWEST WICHITA COUNTIES OF WEST CENTRAL KANSAS SINCE 6 PM MDT (7 PM CDT). RESIDENTS NEAR THE WASHES OF SOUTHERN GREELEY COUNTY AND ALONG SAND CREEK OF SOUTHERN WICHITA COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. THE GREELEY COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE HAS REPORTED WATER OVER KANSAS HIGHWAY 27...FOUR AND ONE HALF MILES SOUTH OF TRIBUNE. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! BPARKER BARKER &
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 Sep 2, 7:15 PM MDT, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 7:15 PM MDT, 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 715 PM MDT (815 PM CDT) MON SEP 2 1996 WILL UPDATE FOR WATCH FOR KS ZNS. GLD 062/087/063/090 20- HLC 065/089/064/092 200 CB K 063/087/063/090 2-- MCK 083/061/085/062 0-1 TRB 062/088/062/091 40- ITR 059/090/060/092 10- BARKER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 7:35 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-030740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 736 PM MDT (836 PM CDT) MON SEP 2 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 AM CDT)... CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF WIDELY SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 AM CDT). HAIL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH AND WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THJE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 7:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 63 min |
| Sep 2, 8:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 49 min |
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.