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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Aug 18, 2006, 4:06 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It took effect at Aug 18, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2006, 4:06 AM CDT (09:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 18, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 Aug 18, 3:23 AM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 3:23 AM CDT, 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 11:22 AM CDT, 16 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1022 AM MDT THU AUG 17 2006 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-181200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1122 AM CDT THU AUG 17 2006 /1022 AM MDT THU AUG 17 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING IN EASTERN COLORADO. DUE TO LIMITED INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR...STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION FROM LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY SATURDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL ALSO MOVE THROUGH AT THE SAME TIME. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL BE IN PLACE AHEAD OF THESE FEATURES. AS A RESULT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA DURING THIS TIME. AT THIS TIME...THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR THESE STORMS TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS COULD CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS IN LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. BULLER/JDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wichita | 113 min |
| Aug 17, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 9:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley | 116 min |
| Aug 18, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 24 min |
| Aug 18, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 38 min |
| Aug 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 6:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 7:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 113 min |
| Aug 18, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 28 min |
| Aug 18, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 41 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2006Flash Flood Watches in Colorado, 2006Every flash flood watch in 2006
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.