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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

July 7, 2004Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2004, 6:14 PM CDT for Norton 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 2004, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -302 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 374 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGLD 072314
FFWGLD
KSC137-080215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
614 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 610 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF LENORA...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  REAGER...NORTON...NEW ALMELO...EDMOND...DENSMORE...CALVERT AND
  ALMENA.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.

LAT...LON 4000 10018 3958 10017 3957 9964 4000 9965

$$

LOCKHART

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KGLD 080140
FFSGLD
KSC137-080215-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
838 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THERE HAS BEEN NO FLASH FLOODING REPORTED FOLLOWING THE HEAVY RAIN 
THAT FELL OVER NORTON COUNTY EARLIER THIS EVENING....THEREFORE THE 
FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4000 10018 3958 10017 3957 9964 4000 9965

$$

LOCKHART

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	66 min
Jul 7, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	64 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.