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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

July 25, 1999Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 1999, 11:05 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 13 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 25, 1999, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1999, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2053 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 260505 COR
FFWGLD
KSC063-261700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED CODING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1005 PM MDT (1105 PM CDT) SUN JUL 25 1999

...A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST GOVE COUNTY UNTIL NOON
CDT...

RAINFALL TOTALS BETWEEN 5 TO 8 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN
NORTHEAST GOVE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT WILL MEAN
THAT FLOODING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH NOON ON MONDAY.

DUE TO THE DURATION OF THE FLOODING IN THE QUINTER AREA...THE FLASH
FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A FLOOD WARNING.

PEOPLE IN QUINTER SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS...AND BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...SHOULD FLOODWATERS THREATEN.

DURING THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT...FLOODED SECTIONS OF ROAD MAY NOT BE
VISIBLE TO MOTORISTS. SOME ROADWAYS MAY EVEN BE CLOSED.

MLC

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 25, 3:03 PM CDT, 8 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:03 PM CDT, 8 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
203 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 1999

ATTM SATL WAS SHOWING A FEW CU DEVELOPING ACRS THE W CWA. THE LATEST
RUC SHOWED CAA ACROS THE MID LVLS OVR THE W FA AND COMBINING THIS
WITH DAYTIME HEATING EXPECT THIS CU TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE THIS
AFTN.

AFTER THIS MORNINGS ANALYSIS WILL LEAN TOWARD THE NGM SOLN WHICH
INDICATED THE LOCATION OF THIS EARLY MORNINGS PCPN BETTR. ATTM A
THERMAL LOW WAS OVR GLD AND A SFC COLD FRONT WAS OVR NW NEBRASKA
THAT WAS MOVG SOUTH AND WILL APPROACH OUR NORTHERN CWA THIS LATE
AFTN. A 5H/VORT LONG WAVE TROUGH REMAINS ACROS THE FA AND AS THE SFC
COLD FRONT BECOMES STATIONARY OVR THE N CWA BY EARLY EVENING...TSRA
SHUD BEGIN TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND PERSIST INTO THE
EVENING. AFTER ANALYZING THE 12Z/DDC SOUNDING WHICH SHOWED AN
INCREASED CAP BUT AFTER MODIFICATION THE CAP DOES BREAK AND ACTIVITY
SHUD DEVELOP A LITTLE LATER TODAY THAN YDAY. ACTIVITY MAY TAKE
ALITTLE LONGER TO DEVELOP OVR THE C/E CWA AS THE RUC SHOWED SOME MID
LVL WARM AIR PERSISTING. ALSO AS THE FRONT DRIFTS SOUTH OF THE
NORTHERN CWA TONIGHT UPSLOPE NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PREVAIL AND SKIES
SHUD BECOME MOSTLY CLOUDY.

THE FRONT DRIFTS SOUTH ACROSS THE CENTRAL CWA EARLY MONDAY AND
APPEARS TO WASH OUT. SFC WINDS BECOME EAST UPSLOPE ACROSS MOST OF THE
CWA AND EXPECT LOW LVL CLOUD COVER TO INC ACROSS THE FA DURING THE
MORNING HOURS THAT CUD BE SLOW TO BURN OFF. A 5H/VORT MAX OVR SOUTH
CENTRAL COLORADO INTENSIFIES AND MOVES INTO E CO LATE MONDAY. THE
WASHED OUT FRONT DEVELOPS INTO A WARM FRONT AND MOVES NORTH INTO
NEBRASKA. PWATS INCREASE AS MOISTR ADVTS NORTH INTO THE TRI-STATE
AREA ON SE WINDS. NGM AND THE ETA TIME SECTIONS OVR GLD SHOW VERY
IMPRESSIVE OMEGA FIELDS WITH INCREASING MOISTR ALOFT. 7H/MIXR MOISTR
WAS FORECAST TO BE OVR 8 G/KG OVR MOST OF THE FA SO WILL INC POPS
DURING THIS PERIOD.

MID LVL CLOUD COVER REMAINS QUITE EXTENSIVE ACROSS THE CWA TUESDAY.
ALSO A LINGERING 5H/VORT MAX CONTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN FA THEREFORE
WILL LEAVE POPS ACROSS THE CWA. THCKNS DECREASES LATE MONDAY INTO
TUESDAY AND WILL LWR AFTN HIGH TMPS FROM PREVIOUS DAYS.

THE EXTENDED HAS THE 5H/HIGH EDGING INTO COLORADO WITH DRIER AIR MVG
INTO THE FA WEDNESDAY. THIS HIGH PUSHES INTO KANSAS THURSDAY AND
EXPECT A VERY WARM TO HOT DAY DRY DAY. THE HIGH DRIFTS EAST FRIDAY
AND RETURN MOISTR FROM THE GULF TRIES TO ENTER THE FA FROM THE SOUTH.
NEVER THE LESS ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS SHUD PERSIST INTO THE END OF THE
WEEK.

.GLD...NONE.

VPAPOL

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 6:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
516 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 1999

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

0402 PM    QUINTER                   KS    .75 INCH HAIL
07/25/99   GOVE

0410 PM    QUINTER                   KS    .75 INCH HAIL
07/25/99   GOVE

0505 PM    QUINTER                   KS    .75 INCH HAIL
07/25/99   GOVE                            MINOR STREET FLOODING,
                                           NUMEROUS CARS
                                           HYDROPLANING OFF OF
                                           INTERSTATE

SVEN

Local storm report, Jul 25, 6:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
553 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 1999

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

0515 PM    10 NNW BIRD CITY          KS    .88 INCH HAIL
07/25/99   CHEYENNE

0515 PM    1 S QUINTER               KS    .75 INCH HAIL
07/25/99   GOVE

0537 PM    TRENTON                   NE    .75 INCH HAIL
07/25/99   HITCHCOCK

0545 PM    18 N BIRD CITY            KS    60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/25/99   CHEYENNE

SULLIVAN

Local storm report, Jul 25, 6:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
558 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 1999

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

0545 P`M    5 NE QUINTER              KS    FLOOD
07/25/99   GOVE                            NORMALLY DRY CREEK BEDS                                            WERE REPORTED TO BE                                            ONE-QUARTER WIDE

SULLIVAN

Local storm report, Jul 25, 7:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
616 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 1999

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

0540 PM    TRENTON                   NE    .75 INCH HAIL
07/25/99   HITCHCOCK

SULLIVAN

Local storm report, Jul 25, 7:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
640 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 1999

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

0600 PM    2 S BENKELMAN             NE    .75 INCH HAIL
07/25/99   DUNDY

Local storm report, Jul 25, 10:26 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
926 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 1999

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

0809 PM    HOXIE MUNI ARPT           KS    91 MPH TSTM GUST
07/25/99   SHERIDAN                        HANGAR AND 2 AIRCRAFT
                                           DESTROYED. DAMAGE
                                           SPREAD TO NORTHEAST.

B

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 11:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove	7 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1999 Every 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.