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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

July 26, 2001Gove County, Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2001, 10:48 PM CDT for Gove County, Sheridan 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
Jul 26, 2001, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2001, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gove County, KS, Sheridan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2739 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2739 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGLD 270348
FFWGLD
KSC063-179-270645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1048 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 145 AM CDT

* AT 1048 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR THUNDERSTORMS WITH 
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 7 MILES EAST OF TASCO TO THE MONUMENT          
  ROCKS...OR FROM 15 MILES EAST OF HOXIE TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF    
  HEALY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...THE MONUMENT ROCKS...
  TASCO...SELDEN...SEGUIN...QUI&NTER...PARK...HOXIE...GRINNELL...
  GRAINFIELD...GOVE AND ANGELUS.

$$

LAT...LON 3870 10083 3869 10016 3957 10017 3957 10072
          3913 10072 3913 10082

THEDE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 8:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan3 hr
Jul 26, 9:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDWichita3 hr
Jul 26, 11:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan2 hr
Jul 27, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins47 min
Jul 27, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins44 min
Jul 27, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita42 min
Jul 27, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins46 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.