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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 10, 2006, 4:00 AM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2006, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
County Cheyenne County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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, 9.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jul 10, 3:30 AM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:30 AM CDT, 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1054 AM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-101200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1154 AM CDT SUN JUL 9 2006 /1054 AM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHING FROM KIT CARSON COLORADO TO OBERLIN KANSAS. PLENTY OF MOISTURE IS IN PLACE WITH DEWPOINTS WELL INTO THE 60S...BUT DAYTIME HEATING AND SHEAR WILL BE SOMEWHAT LIMITED. AS A RESULT...STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...BUT MAY PRODUCE AREAS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO WHERE HEAVY RAINS HAVE OCCURRED THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...BUT AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. LOCKHART
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
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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.