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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2001, 7:02 PM CDT for Cheyenne 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 19, 2001, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGLD 200004 FFWGLD KSC023-200300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 702 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 702 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING OVER ST. FRANCIS...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...WHEELER...ST. FRANCIS AND BIRD CITY. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER OVER THE ROAD ON HIGHWAY 27 3 MILES SOUTH OF WHEELER. 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 ENGULF 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 3978 10194 3961 10186 3967 10140 4000 10142 SVEN
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 19, 3:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 237 PM THU JUL 19 2001 CHALLENGE CONTINUES TO BE EXTENT OF COVERAGE OF TSRAS TONIGHT AND FRI NIGHT. AGAIN MODELS VERY SIMILAR. AND AGAIN WILL GO WITH ETA. AND AGAIN THERE IS LITTLE TO NO CHANGE IN HTS OR TEMPS AT 50H OVER AREA IN LAST 24 HRS (NOW LAST 48 HRS). ALTHOUGH CENTER OF UPPER RIDGE APPEARS TO HAVE DRIFTED ESE TO NORTHERN ARK RIDGE HAS CONTINUED TO BUILD SLIGHTLY. THEREFORE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TONIGHT OR EARLY FRI. ANOTHER WEAK VORT MAX COMES FROM SW ACROSS CENTER MY CWA DURING EVENING AND INTO SCEN NEB AFTER/NEAR MIDNIGHT. AXIS APPEARS TO BE SLIGHTLY WEST OF ONE LAST NIGHT. SO SCT-WDLY SCT TSRAS THIS EVENING THEN DECREASING CLDS. HOWEVER DURING DAY FRI MODELS STILL SHOW FAIRLY STRONG 70H S/W MOVING SLOWLY FROM EAST CO TO SCEN NEB FROM NEAR NOON INTO EARLY NIGHT. MOST NOTICEABLE EFFECT MAY BE MOSTLY CLOUDY IN FORM OF MIDDLE CLOUDS AS THERE DOESNT APPEAR TO BE MUCH +UVV WITH IT. SHOULD KEEP HIGH TEMPS POSSIBLY FIVE DEGREES BELOW TODAY. AGAIN SCT TSRAS FROM LATE PM THRU THE EVENING. AFTER MIDNIGHT CLEARING AND DRYING TREND APPEARS TO MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS CWA. SAT MODELS SHOW MUCH DRIER AIR IN AREA WITH ASSOCIATED WARMER/HOTTER TEMPS. MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A FEW TSRAS COMING OUT OF CO SAT EVEN BUT MUCH LESS COVERAGE THAN LAST TWO DAYS. TEMPS SAT AND INTO SUN GOING OVER 100 MARK IN SEVERAL AREAS. IN EXTENDED AS UPPER HIGH CENTER SLIPS TO SW SUN AND MON SLIGHTLY COOLER...NEAR SEASONAL HIGHS...MOVES INTO AREA MON. STILL APPEARS SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCES FOR TSRAS...AFTER DRY SUN AND MON...OCCURS TUES AND WED AS UPPER HIGH CENTER FURTHEREST SOUTH. THIS SHOULD KEEP TEMPS THOSE DAYS NEAR NORMAL. HOWEVER BOTH MRF AND ECM SEEM IN AGREEMENT THAT BY LATE WEDS UPPER HIGH CENTER BUILDS AGAIN AND MOVES NORTH OVER MY CWA BY THU WITH GREATEST HTS YET. ACCORDINGLY THINK DRY AND HOT/VERY TEMPS (10 TO 15 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL) TO BEGIN TO OCCUR OVER REGION BY THU. THANKS TO LBF FOR COORDINATION. .GLD...NONE. RJC
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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.