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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT for Wallace 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 6, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 070000 FFWGLD KSC199-070300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 600 PM MDT FRI SEP 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHEASTERN WALLACE COUNTY AT 558 MDT (658 CDT) GOODLAND RADAR ESTIMATED AT LEAST 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 3 PM OVER NORTHEAST WALLACE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR THROUGH THE EVENING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN...AND DO NOT DRIVE WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. CLAGHORN
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 6, 2:01 PM MDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:01 PM MDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 201 PM MDT (301 PM CDT) FRI SEP 6 1996 ...MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM PRECIPITATION THROUGH FIRST AND SECOND PERIODS... COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST COLORADO WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS JUST BEHIND THE FRONT. RUC HAS 5H SHORT WAVE OVER WESTERN COLORADO MOVING NORTHEAST INTO THE REGION BY 0Z WITH MM5 MODEL SHOWING GOOD DIVERGENCE AT 3H THROUGH 06Z. MM5 MODEL ALSO HAS HIGHEST CAPES EXTENDING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ZONES THIS EVENING IN AREA THAT HAS RECEIVED THE MOST SUNSHINE TODAY. WITH FRONT EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING EAST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FORECAST TO SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA BY 06Z IN RESPONSE TO APPROACHING SHORT WAVE. HIGH PW VALUES OVER THE REGION SHOULD RESULT IN HEAVY RAINFALL IN SOME LOCATIONS. AS SHORT WAVE MOVES NE AWAY FROM THE REGION OVERNIGHT...AND DIVERGENCE ALOFT DECREASES PER THE MM5...CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO TAPER OFF DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS WITH SHOWERS ENDING BY MIDDAY. SFC HIGH BUILDS INTO THE FA WITH DECREASING CLOUDINESS SPREADING FROM NW TO SE. AVN MODEL FROM 0Z KEEPS SFC HIGH OVER CWA THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...PER DISCUSSION WITH DDC...AGREE 0Z MODEL RUNS UNDERESTIMATED STRENGTH OF COOL AIR BEHIND THE FRONT...THEREFORE SFC HIGH TO SHIFT FURTHER TO THE SOUTHEAST. THIS TO RESULT IN SE FLOW OVER MOST OF CWA SATURDAY NIGHT. DRY AIR BEHIND FRONT SHOULD PREVENT FOG DEVELOPMENT DESPITE UPSLOPE FLOW AND RESIDUAL MOISTURE FROM EARLIER CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. HAVE LOWERED TEMPERATURES FIRST AND SECOND PERIODS IN RESPONSE TO GREATER THAN EXPECTED COOLING. WENT BELOW FMR/FAN N8UMBERS OF 0Z RUN FOR OUT PERIODS AS WELL. GLD 051/070/049/076 930 HLC 057/071/053/077 730 CBK 053/071/051/078 930 MCK 054/069/050/075 720 TRB 058/072/052/080 730 ITR 050/070/048/075 920 TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 6:54 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 2 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.