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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

June 16, 1996Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1996, 4:24 AM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 8 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, 4:24 AM CDT (09:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1996, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 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
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

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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 Jun 16, 3:59 AM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:59 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
259 AM MDT (359 AM CDT) SUN JUN 16 1996

AM RUNNING BEHIND DUE TO FLOODING ACROSS PARTS OF CWA.  WL ISSUE
BRIEF DISCUSSION ARND 0930Z.  HERE ARE THE CCF NUMBERS FOR THIS
FCST PERIOD.

GLD  082/059/087/061 221    HLC 083/062/088/064 22-
CBK  083/060/088/063 221    MCK 081/061/088/064 22-
TRB  084/060/089/062 221    ITR 081/057/087/060 221

KPL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur3 hr
Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDNorton3 hr
Jun 15, 10:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins, Sheridan, Thomas3 hr
Jun 16, 12:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Norton3 hr
Jun 16, 12:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins, Sheridan, Thomas3 hr
Jun 16, 11:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Norton6 hr
Jun 16, 5:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Norton6 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.