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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

July 26, 20014 counties in Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2001, 3:08 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 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, 3:08 AM CDT (08:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2001, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sheridan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 2480 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGLD 260808
FFWGLD
KSC063-065-109-179-261200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
308 AM 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
  LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 305 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED 
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF 
  HILL CITY TO QUINTER TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF OAKLEY.  ANOTHER 
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
  WINONA.

* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...WINONA...THE MONUMENT
  ROCKS...TASCO...STUDLEY...SAINT PETER...RUSSELL SPRINGS...
  QUINTER...PENOKEE...PARK...OAKLEY...NICODEMUS...MORLAND...
  MONUMENT...HOXIE...HILL CITY...GRINNELL...GRAINFIELD...GOVE...BOGUE
  AND ANGELUS.

THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING REPLACES THE EARLIER WARNING ISSUED FOR 
LOGAN COUNTY.

MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR AT NIGHT.  BE EXPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT 
NIGHT SINCE IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. 
USE CAUTION IN AND AROUND STREAMS...CREEKS...OR DRAINAGE DITCHES. 
TAKE THE SHORTEST PATH TO REACH HIGHER GROUND...BUT DO NOT DRIVE 
THROUGH RISING WATER.

PLEASE REPORT ANY FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.

$$

LAT...LON 3870 10015 3911 10015 3913 9962 3955 9960
          3955 10016 3925 10072 3913 10071 3911 10146
          3869 10147

ENTWISTLE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 12:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every 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.