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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS

July 24, 1999Greeley County, Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1999, 6:35 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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 24, 1999, 6:35 PM MDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1999, 12:30 AM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Greeley County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1999-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 31 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1999-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 3:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove32 min
Jul 25, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins49 min
Jul 25, 3:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham66 min
Jul 25, 3:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove64 min
Jul 25, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins62 min
Jul 25, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne62 min
Jul 25, 5:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove61 min
Jul 25, 5:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGove6 hr
Jul 25, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock46 min
Jul 25, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.