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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2009, 4:41 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 97 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2009, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2009, 6:18 PM CDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGLD 252141 FFWGLD KSC063-260045- /O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0021.090825T2141Z-090826T0045Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 441 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 439 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL GOVE COUNTY...TO THE WEST OF HIGHWAY 23. THIS HEAVY RAIN WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF AND CREATE FLASH FLOODING...PRIMARILY OF COUNTRY ROADS IN THE AREA. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. 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. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN GOODLAND. && LAT...LON 3892 10057 3888 10035 3870 10054 3870 10073 $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KGLD 252318 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 618 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 2009 KSC063-252327- /O.CAN.KGLD.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-090826T0045Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ GOVE KS- 618 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 2009 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL GOVE COUNTY... HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA AND FLOODING IS NOT CURRENTLY OCCURRING ACROSS THE AREA. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3892 10057 3888 10035 3870 10054 3870 10073 $$ JRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 35 min |
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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.