Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 5, 2005, 8:21 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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
- Apr 5, 2005, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2005, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KGLD 060123
FFWGLD
KSC109-137-179-203-060415-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
821 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
WICHITA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
* AT 816 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS AND MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAIN SHOWERS OVER THE WARNED AREA. WATER WAS REPORTED RUNNING
OVER COUNTY ROADS IN WICHITA...SHERIDAN...AND NORTON COUNTIES.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TASCO...
SELDEN...REAGER...NORTON...NEW ALMELO...LENORA...HOXIE...EDMOND...
DENSMORE...CALVERT AND ALMENA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
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 3957 9963 3956 10017 3913 10016 3913 10071
3926 10072 3924 10077 3913 10091 3912 10081
3870 10081 3869 10112 3826 10112 3826 10156
3913 10147 3912 10093 3928 10071 3957 10071
3956 10030 3964 10017 4000 10017 4000 9963
$$
LOCKHART1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KGLD 060300
FFSGLD
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
859 PM MDT TUE APR 5 2005
KSC109-137-179-203-060415-
WICHITA KS-NORTON KS-SHERIDAN KS-LOGAN KS-
959 PM CDT TUE APR 5 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR LOGAN...
SHERIDAN...NORTON AND WICHITA COUNTIES...
AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE
WARNED AREA.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TASCO...
SELDEN...SEGUIN...REAGER...NORTON...NEW ALMELO...LENORA...HOXIE...
EDMOND...DENSMORE...CALVERT AND ALMENA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.
LAT...LON 3957 9963 3956 10017 3913 10016 3913 10071
3926 10072 3924 10077 3913 10091 3912 10081
3870 10081 3869 10112 3826 10112 3826 10156
3913 10147 3912 10093 3928 10071 3957 10071
3956 10030 3964 10017 4000 10017 4000 9963
$$
LOCKHARTNearby
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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.