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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Mar 28, 2007, 1:59 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 28, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2007, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2007, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 620 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 Mar 28, 11:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 11:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1055 AM MDT WED MAR 28 2007 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-291300- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1055 AM MDT WED MAR 28 2007 /1155 AM CDT WED MAR 28 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE TRI-STATE AREA TODAY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WHICH WILL EXTEND ROUGHLY ALONG THE CO-KS BORDER BY MID-AFTERNOON. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY EAST THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. BY 6 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND DEVELOP INTO A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY FOR ANY DISCRETE CELLS WHICH FORM. STORM MOTION WILL BE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. DESPITE THE FAST STORM MOTIONS... TRAINING OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...MAINLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 25. DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS THE LINE WILL SLOW ITS EASTWARD PROGRESSION. THE LOW LEVEL JET WILL REDEVELOP AND IN TURN RE-ENERGIZE THE LINE OF STORMS. THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT (1 PM CDT) UNTIL 6 PM MDT (7 PM CDT). STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA...ESPECIALLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 83. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. EXTREME FIRE DANGER WILL DEVELOP SHORTLY AFTER NOON MDT AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BEHIND THE DRYLINE FALL TOWARD 20 PERCENT AND STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS CONTINUE BLOW ACROSS THE AREA. OUTDOOR BURNING OF ANY TYPE IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED AFTER 3 PM MDT (4 PM CDT). DDT/DLF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 62 min |
| Mar 28, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Wallace | 63 min |
| Mar 28, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 26 min |
| Mar 28, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 3:34 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 4 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 28 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2007Flash Flood Watches in Nebraska, 2007Every flash flood watch in 2007
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.