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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS

September 15, 1997Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 1997, 3:45 AM CDT for Graham 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 15, 1997, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 15, 1997, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Graham County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1285 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
8.4

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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 15, 3:30 AM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 3:30 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
230 AM MDT (330 AM CDT) MON SEP 15 1997

...FORECAST CHALLENGE AGAIN WILL BE POSITION OF LEE TROUGH THROUGH
TUESDAY AND TIMING OF FROPA...

WILL FOLLOW REASONING AND TRACK OF PREVIOUS FCST AND WILL MAKE ONLY
A FEW MINOR CHANGES. NOT EXPECTING ANY DENSE FOG THIS MORNING
WITH TEMP DEW PT SPREADS OVER MOST AREAS AROUND OR GREATER THAN 5
DEGREES.  WILL WORD BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY...ALTHOUTH MAY BE SOME
PATCHY FOG OVER EXTRM WRN KS AND ERN CO.

NGM SFC PTRN INITIALIZED RATHER WELL AND IS A LITTLE SLOWER THAN THE
ETA IN THE UPPER AIR PATTERN. WILL GO WITH THE SLOWER NGM SINCE
TENDENCY OVER LAST SEVERAL DAYS HAS BEEN FOR THE MODELS TO BE A
LITTLE FAST WITH THE SYSTEMS COMING OVER THE TOP OF THE UPPER RIDGE.

FROPA SHOULD BE AROUND 10Z IN GLD AND 14Z IN HLC TUESDAY MORNING.

.GLD...NONE.

SKIPPER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 14, 10:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
921 PM MDT SUN SEP 14 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0858 PM    11 S OBERLIN              KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
09/14/97   DECATUR

0906 PM    8 SW DRESDEN              KS   .75 INCH HAIL
09/14/97   DECATUR                        HWY 9 AT MILEPOST 7

ENTWISTLE
Local storm report, Sep 14, 11:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
1017 PM MDT SUN SEP 14 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1012 PM    STUDLEY                   KS   60 MPH TSTM WIND
09/14/97   SHERIDAN                       SHERIFFS SPOTTER REPORT

ENTWISTLE
Local storm report, Sep 14, 11:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
1017 PM MDT SUN SEP 14 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1012 PM    STUDLEY                   KS   60 MPH TSTM WIND
09/14/97   SHERIDAN                       SHERIFFS SPOTTER REPORT

ENTWISTLE
Local storm report, Sep 15, 12:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
1107 PM MDT SUN SEP 14 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1020 PM    9 W HILL CITY             KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
09/14/97   GRAHAM                         ALSO HEAVY RAIN AND 45 MPH
                                          WIND

1034 PM    MORLAND                   KS   65 MPH TSTM WIND
09/14/97   GRAHAM                         ALSO .75 INCH HAIL

ENTWISTLE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne49 min
Sep 14, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins60 min
Sep 14, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas48 min
Sep 14, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur64 min
Sep 14, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas36 min
Sep 14, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas61 min
Sep 14, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur65 min
Sep 14, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins49 min
Sep 14, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Sheridan47 min
Sep 14, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins65 min
Sep 14, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham47 min
Sep 15, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins48 min
Sep 15, 12:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham61 min
Sep 15, 12:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGraham3 hr
Sep 15, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins6 hr

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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.