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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Goodland, KS

September 18, 1996Cheyenne County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 1996, 9:41 AM CDT for Cheyenne 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
Sep 18, 1996, 9:41 AM CDT (14:41 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 1996, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Cheyenne County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 18, 8:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 8:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
704 AM MDT (804 AM CDT) WED SEP 18 1996

AM GETTING CLRG OVR PTNS CWA ATTM BEHIND THUNDERSTORMS. WITH LESS
CLD COVER...WL UPDATE TO PUSH MAXES UP A LTL...MAINLY WRN PTN CWA AS
WELL. ALSO WL SEPARATE FIRST PD INTO MRNG AND AFTN SINCE DO NOT
EXPECT TSRA/SHRA TO START TIL AFTN.

GLD 064/049/063/042 893  HLC 067/056/065/049 895
CBK 064/050/064/043 893  MCK 062/050/062/048 995
TRB *069/053/065/045 893  ITR 065/045/062/041 993

BULLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne62 min
Sep 17, 10:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne6 hr
Sep 17, 11:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace36 min
Sep 18, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace49 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.