Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1996, 12:26 AM CDT for Rawlins County, Sheridan County, Thomas 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
- Jun 16, 1996, 12:26 AM CDT (05:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 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 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 160527 FFWGLD KSC153-179-193-160800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1126 PM MDT (1226 AM CDT) SAT JUN 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT (200 AM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHEASTERN RAWLINS COUNTY ...NORTHWESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY ...EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY AT 1224 AM CDT...THE VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM EARLIER TONIGHT CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING ACROSS SOUTHEAST RAWLINS COUNTY ALONG THE MIDDLE FORK OF SAPPA CREEK. FLASH FLOODING ALSO CONTINUES OVER EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY...WITH FLASH FLOODING EXPECTED TO SPREAD INTO NORTHWEST SHERIDAN COUNTY ALONG PRAIRIE DOG CREEK. DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. TURNER TURNER
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 15, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 848 PM MDT (948 PM CDT) SAT JUN 15 1996 SURFACE AND UPPER LOW PULLING OUT... WITH NORTHWEST WINDS NEARING MCCOOK AND WELL ESTABLISHED IN GOODLAND. LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WORKING SLOWLY EAST AS SYSTEM MOVES OUT... WITH NORTH END MOVING A LITTLE FASTER THAN SOUTH END. LOW CLOUDS AND FOG NOTED IN AKO OBS AND PICKED UP BY KGLD 88-D... MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST. WILL UPDATE ZONES SHORTLY TO PICK UP ON MOVEMENT OF STORMS... LOW CLOUDS... FOG... AND PROGRESS OF NORTHWEST WINDS. GLD 060/080/056/088 711 HLC 063/075/060/086 732 CBK 061/078/058/087 711 MCK 061/074/058/085 831 TRB 063/082/055/090 511 ITR 0v58/080/055/086 721 ENTWISTLE
The office that day
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, 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, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 6 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.