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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Goodland, KS

May 25, 20085 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at May 25, 2008, 9:43 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 25, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2008, 9:43 AM CDT (14:43 UTC)
In effect from: May 25, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 25, 2008, 11:44 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -263 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 25, 4:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 4:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	44 min
May 25, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	43 min
May 25, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	39 min
May 25, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	48 min
May 25, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	48 min
May 25, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Wichita	41 min
May 25, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	12 min
May 25, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	47 min
May 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	12 min
May 25, 4:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove	3 hr
May 25, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	42 min
May 25, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Wichita	44 min
May 25, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	22 min
May 25, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	44 min
May 25, 6:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2008 Flash Flood Watches in Nebraska, 2008 Every flash flood watch in 2008

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.