Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Goodland, KS

Issued

Jul 9, 1998, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)

Expired

Jul 10, 1998, 1:00 PM CDT

In force

14 hr

Issued by

NWS Goodland, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Logan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
934 PM MDT (1034 PM CDT) THU JUL 9 1998

...THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE ENTIRE NORTH
FORK OF THE SMOKY HILL RIVER THROUGH NOON MDT (1 PM CDT)...

AT 930 PM MDT (1030 PM CDT) GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER
REPORTS INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER SHERMAN COUNTY...
WALLACE COUNTY...AND LOGAN COUNTIES IN KANSAS. DOPPLER RADAR
ESTIMATES THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN. A NARROW AXIS
OF 3 INCH RAINFALL EXTENDS FROM THE TOWN OF WINONA SOUTHWEST TO 15
MILES NORTHEAST OF SHARON SPRINGS. A WEATHER SPOTTER 8 MILES WEST OF
WINONA REPORTED OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN WITH RAIN STILL FALLING.

WITH THE HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT AND RAINFALL LAST NIGHT...THE NORTH
FORK OF THE SMOKY HILL RIVER WILL LIKELY EXCEED ITS BANKS. EARLIER
THIS EVENING...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEES REPORTED THAT MANY
COUNTY ROADS NEAR SMOKY GARDENS IN SHERMAN COUNTY HAD WATER FLOWING
OVER THEM. IN NORTHWEST LOGAN COUNTY...RESIDENTS IN THE TOWN OF
MCALLASTER REPORTED WATER IN THEIR HOMES.

RESIDENTS PLANNING TRAVEL ALONG OR NEAR THE RIVER SHOULD STAY ALERT
FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATERS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY
TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

THEDE

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 9, 2:48 PM CDT, 7 hours 46 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
148 PM MDT (248 PM CDT) THU JUL 9 1998

...THE CHALLENGE THIS FCST PACKAGE IS TSTM POTENTIAL AND
HVY RNFL THREAT...

ALL MODELS HV BEEN DOING POORLY LATELY...HWVR...LIKE THE NGM/AVN
THIS FCST PACKAGE. LTST WTR VAPOR AND VISIBLE LOOP SHOWS SW MONSOON
MOISTURE PLUME OVR MUCH OF CWA...WITH MID LVL DRY PUNCH MOVING N
THRU SE CO AND SW KS. LTST RADAR LOOP ALSO INDCS SOME WK CNVTN OVR
SW NEBRASKA ERN CO...UNDER MN MOISTURE PLUME.

FEEL CNVTN WILL CONT OVR NE CO...SW NEBRASKA TNGT WITH POSSIBLE MCS
DVLPMT SPCLY OVR NRN CWA. THIS FITS WELL WITH BOTH NGM/AVN PRECIP
FIELDS THRU 6Z FRI. ALSO...700 MB OMEGA FIELDS ALSO SUPPORT CNVTN OVR
NE CO AND SW NEBRASKA...WITH E/SE PROPAGATION INDCD BY THE CORFIDI
VECTORS. MODIFIED SOUNDING GIVES CAPES OF OVR 2000 WITH LI OF ARND
-7 FOR GLD AND HLC AND WET BULB TEMPS 2000 FT LWR THAN YDA...CANT
RULE OUT ISOLD SVR WITH VERY HVY RNFL LKLY. CONSIDERING ABNDT
RNFL...CRNT FLDNG OVR PORTIONS OF CWA FM LAST NGTS RNFL AND PW OVR
ONE INCH...WILL ISSUE FLASH FLD WTCH FOR A PTN OF CWA OVNGT. WITH
THIS IN MIND WILL GO SLIGHTLY ABV MOS POPS TNGT WITH MN THREAT N OF
I-70.

STAYING WITH MOS...WILL KEEP POPS IN PACKAGE THRU FRI NGT WITH
MOISTURE PLUME LKLY LINGERING OVR CWA. TEMPS LOOK RESONABLE WITH MOS
DOING EXCELLENT JOB. EXTENDED FCST MODELS SHO POSSIBLE CNVTN ON
SUN...WITH DRYING MONDAY AND TUE.

CONFIDENCE IS RATED BELOW AVERAGE THIS FCST GVN INCONSISTENT
PAST MODEL PERFORMANCE...HWVR...FEEL THAT THE POP COVERAGE IN THE
CRNT PACKAGE IS RESONABLE CONSIDERING AN AVERAGE OF ALL MODEL
PARAMETERS AND PAST EVE RNFL.

.GLD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NW KS COUNTIES 1...13...14...27...28

MATHEWSON/VJN

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