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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at May 29, 2008, 4:17 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 29, 2008, 11:04 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2008, 4:17 AM CDT (09:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 29, 2008, 11:04 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 9:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, 3:36 AM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:36 AM CDT, 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 56 min |
| May 29, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 49 min |
| May 29, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Thomas | 51 min |
| May 29, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 39 min |
| May 29, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 66 min |
| May 29, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 48 min |
| May 29, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 42 min |
| May 29, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 52 min |
| May 29, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas, Wallace | 49 min |
| May 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 28 min |
| May 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 42 min |
| May 29, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 52 min |
| May 29, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 37 min |
| May 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan, Thomas | 45 min |
| May 29, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 3 hr |
| May 29, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Sheridan | 36 min |
| May 29, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan | 33 min |
| May 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 7 hr |
| May 29, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 40 min |
| May 29, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Sheridan | 51 min |
| May 29, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 30 min |
| May 29, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas, Wallace | 54 min |
| May 29, 11:16 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 10 hr |
| May 29, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 26 min |
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.