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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Sep 8, 2009, 2:07 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Sep 8, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2009, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 8, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 Sep 8, 12:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 12:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 8, 11:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1037 AM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-091415- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1037 AM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009 /1137 AM CDT TUE SEP 8 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE AREA. STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. ALSO...DENSE FOG IS EXPECTED TO FORM ACROSS TRI-STATE AREA DURING THE MORNING HOURS POTENTIALLY REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A MILE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 8, 10:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 12:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 57 min |
| Sep 8, 2:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Thomas | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 6:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 12 hr |
| Sep 8, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 54 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.