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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 28, 2007, 8:37 AM CDT for Decatur County, Graham County, Norton County, Kansas; Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 28, 2007, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2007, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 28, 2007, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2007, 4:52 AM CDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Yuma County, CO, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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 Jul 28, 4:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 4:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sherman | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2007Flash Flood Watches in Nebraska, 2007Flash Flood Watches in Colorado, 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.