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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 1998, 3:54 PM CDT for Logan County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 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
- Jul 9, 1998, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1998, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 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 092055 FFWGLD KSC109-181-199-101200- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 254 PM MDT (354 PM CDT) THU JUL 9 1998 ...FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE NORTH FORK OF THE SMOKY HILL RIVER FROM THE COLORADO BORDER TO MCALLASTER IN NORTHWEST LOGAN COUNTY... AT 200 PM MDT (300 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL STILL INDICATE THAT THE NORTH FORK OF THE SMOKY HILL RIVER IS RECEDING...HOWEVER...THE RIVER STILL REMAINS WELL OUT OF ITS BANKS. THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION INDICATE THAT WATER STILL COVERS SMALL PORTIONS OF KANSAS HIGHWAY 27 SOUTH OF GOODLAND...BUT THE ROAD IS NOW PASSABLE. IF NO ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OCCURS...THE RIVER WILL SLOWLY RECEDE... AND SHOULD BE BACK WITHIN ITS BANKS BY MORNING. HOWEVER THIS AREA IS UNDER A FLASH FLOOD WATCH...AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL AGGRAVATE EXISTING FLOODING CONDITIONS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL AT NIGHT AND AVOID DRIVING INTO M@OVING WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. MANNING
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 Jul 9, 2:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 11:29 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-100600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1029 AM MDT (1129 AM CDT) THU JUL 9 1998 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SYNOPSIS: DEEP GULF MOISTURE WILL STILL REMAIN OVER THE HIGH PLAINS THROUGH TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CAN BE EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH MUCH OF TONIGHT. LIGHT WINDS AND WARM TEMPERATURES ALOFT SHOULD PREVENT STORMS FROM BECOMING SEVERE. HOWEVER...SLOW STORM MOVEMENT COMBINED WITH HIGH ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE AMOUNTS WILL LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AS WELL AS THE THREAT FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ST FRANCIS TO ATWOOD AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM WESKAN TO RUSSELL SPRINGS WHERE SIGNIFICANT RECENT RAINFALL HAS SATURATED THE GROUND. SKIPPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 12:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Wallace | 8 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.