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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

April 6, 2001Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 6, 2001, 7:10 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 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
Apr 6, 2001, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rawlins County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 363 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 507 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
507 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
554 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGLD 070013
FFWGLD
KSC153-070215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
710 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 710 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLOODING IN THE STREETS 
  IN ATWOOD AND GULLIES RUNNING FULL.  

* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...MCDONALD...LUDELL...
  HERNDON...BLAKEMAN...BEARDSLEY AND ATWOOD.

MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OR PAST POLICE BARRICADES.
RAPIDLY RISING WATER CAN ENGULJF A VEHICLE AND ITS OCCUPANTS AND SWEEP
THEM AWAY. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS IN THE WATER...ABANDON IT
IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

$$

LAT...LON 3998 10139 3960 10136 3958 10076 3998 10076

LOCKHART

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Norton64 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.