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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2002, 2:32 PM MDT for Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2002, 2:32 PM MDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1929 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGLD 262032 FFWGLD NEC057-087-270230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 331 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT(830 PM MDT) * AT 331 PM CDT(231 PM MDT)...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING NEAR MAX...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BENKELMAN. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. AT 330 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING 8 SOUTHEAST OF STRATTON NEBRASKA. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...BENKELMAN...MAX... STRATTON NE AND TRENTON. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. KNOW YOUR LOCATION IN RELATION TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS THAT CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER. DO NOT CROSS AREAS WHERE WATER IS FLOWING...EVEN ON FOOT. RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY SWEEP YOU OFF YOUR FEET. && LAT...LON 4001 10156 4002 10095 4026 10091 4025 10160 LAMMERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 12:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 1:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 1:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 2:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.