Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2007, 8:12 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 29, 2007, 8:18 PM CDT. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2007, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 29, 2007, 8:18 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 30, 2007, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 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 300118 FFWGLD NEC145-300715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 812 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MCCOOK...LEBANON...INDIANOLA... DANBURY...BARTLEY... * UNTIL 215 AM CDT WEDNESDAY * AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING ALONG AND UPSTREAM OF RED WILLOW COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE BEEN COMMON UPSTREAM OF THE AREA. THE REPUBLICAN RIVER 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF MCCOOK IS NEARING FLOOD STAGE...AND THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ACROSS AND UPSTREAM OF THE AREA WILL LIKELY FORCE THIS LOCATION AND OTHER SMALL STREAMS ACROSS THE AREA TO FLOOD. * THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. 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. LAT...LON 4001 10075 4001 10015 4037 10020 4035 10080 $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KGLD 300153 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 749 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2007 NEC145-300715- RED WILLOW NE- 849 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR RED WILLOW COUNTY... AT 844 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS RED WILLOW COUNTY. HEAVY RAIN HAS ALSO OCCURRED OVER AND UPSTREAM OF AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN LAST NIGHT...AND RAPID RISES ON CREEKS AND WATER RUNNING OVER COUNTY ROADS AND LOW SPOTS ARE EXPECTED. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MCCOOK... INDIANOLA AND BARTLEY EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 4001 10075 4001 10015 4037 10020 4035 10080 $$ JRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 32 min |
| May 29, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 59 min |
| May 29, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 59 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.