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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2009, 6:33 PM CDT for Logan County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2009, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2009, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGLD 222333 FFWGLD KSC109-199-230230- /O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0013.090722T2333Z-090723T0230Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 633 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... EAST CENTRAL WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT/830 PM MDT/ * AT 632 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTY...OR 7 MILES EAST OF WALLACE...MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3883 10127 3877 10149 3901 10159 3903 10137 $$ JRM
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KGLD 230126 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 826 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009 KSC109-199-230230- /O.CON.KGLD.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090723T0230Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LOGAN KS-WALLACE KS- 826 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT/830 PM MDT/ FOR EAST CENTRAL WALLACE AND WEST CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTIES... AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ALONG THE WALLACE AND LOGAN COUNTY LINE. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF AND CREATE FLASH FLOODING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. && LAT...LON 3883 10127 3877 10149 3901 10159 3903 10137 $$ JRM
000 WGUS73 KGLD 230222 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 922 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009 KSC109-199-230231- /O.EXP.KGLD.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090723T0230Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LOGAN KS-WALLACE KS- 922 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT/830 PM MDT/ FOR EAST CENTRAL WALLACE AND WEST CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTIES... HEAVY RAIN HAS COME TO AN END ACROSS THE AREA AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS NO LONGER EXPECTED...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. IF FLOODING WAS OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT THIS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KANSAS. LAT...LON 3883 10127 3877 10149 3901 10159 3903 10137 $$ JRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| Jul 22, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.