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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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 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
ENTWISTLELocal 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
ENTWISTLELocal 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
ENTWISTLELocal 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
ENTWISTLEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 49 min |
| Sep 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 60 min |
| Sep 14, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 48 min |
| Sep 14, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 64 min |
| Sep 14, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 36 min |
| Sep 14, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 61 min |
| Sep 14, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 65 min |
| Sep 14, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 49 min |
| Sep 14, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 47 min |
| Sep 14, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 65 min |
| Sep 14, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 47 min |
| Sep 15, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 48 min |
| Sep 15, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 61 min |
| Sep 15, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 6 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.