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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2007, 7:49 PM CDT for Wichita 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2007, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2007, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 774 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 030053 FFWGLD KSC203-030345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 749 PM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN WICHITA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MARIENTHAL...LYDIA...LEOTI... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 746 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF AN INCH AND A HALF IN AN HOUR OCCURRED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN WICHITA COUNTY...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN AROUND 4 MILES WEST OF LYDIA. OTHER SHOWERS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTH ACROSS AREAS THAT RECEIVED NEARLY THREE INCHES OF RAIN LAST NIGHT. PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL ON SATURATED SOIL WHICH WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF AND PRODUCE FLOODING. * THE STORMS HEAVY RAIN WILL IMPACT MUCH OF EASTERN WICHITA 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. 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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3826 10144 3827 10112 3870 10112 3869 10140 $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KGLD 030159 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 757 PM MDT THU AUG 2 2007 KSC203-030207- WICHITA KS- 857 PM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EASTERN WICHITA COUNTY... RAINFALL HAS COME TO AN END ACROSS WICHITA COUNTY...THEREFORE THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. LAT...LON 3826 10144 3827 10112 3870 10112 3869 10140 $$ JRM
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.