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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at May 29, 2007, 4:28 AM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 29, 2007, 1:46 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2007, 4:28 AM CDT (09:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 29, 2007, 1:46 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 30, 2007, 3:27 AM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:31 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 599 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 May 29, 3:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman | 56 min |
| May 29, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 54 min |
| May 29, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 61 min |
| May 29, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 4 hr |
| May 29, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 67 min |
| May 29, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 53 min |
| May 29, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 65 min |
| May 29, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2007Flash Flood Watches in Colorado, 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.