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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2010, 3:21 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2010, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2010, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 warning went out at May 26, 3:00 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:00 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 200 PM MDT WED MAY 26 2010 .DISCUSSION... 200 PM MDT WED MAY 26 2010 TONIGHT-SATURDAY NIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS STARTING TO POP UP UNDER MODERATE INSTABILITY AND WEAK CAP...WITHIN 850 THETA-E AXIS. CONVECTION IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SEEMS TO BE CREATING SOME SUBSIDENCE OUTSIDE OF THE AREA ALONG THETA-E GRADIENT AND RUC OMEGA FIELDS SHOW DOWNWARD MOTION FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. UPPER WAVE WILL MOVE INTO THE FRONT RANGE AROUND 00Z THEN CONTINUE EAST/NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT. WILL HAVE TO BROADBRUSH LOW CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. FOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT ABOVE MENTIONED SYSTEM MAY REGENERATE A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 15Z AS IT ROTATES SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE AREA. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE MID AND UPPER 80S WITH MOIST SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH. ON FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT UPPER RIDGE AXIS SLOWLY GIVES WAY TO APPROACHING UPPER TROUGH. GREATEST INSTABILITY ACROSS THE EAST WITH WEAKEST CAP AND BETTER MOISTURE/DYNAMICS ACROSS THE WEST...JUST OUTSIDE OF THE FORECAST AREA. HAVE PULLED POPS AS A RESULT. TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO SLOWLY WARM WITH READINGS IN THE UPPER 80S. SATURDAY-SATURDAY NIGHT...UPPER TROUGH LIFTS NORTHEAST INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WEST IN THE AFTERNOON...INCREASING IN COVERAGE SATURDAY NIGHT. HIGH TEMPERATURES NEAR 90 UNDER GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS. SUNDAY-WEDNESDAY...HIGH PRESSURE AND COOLER TEMPERATURES SUNDAY WITH THERMAL RIDGE REBUILDING ACROSS THE WESTERN 1/3 OF THE AREA MONDAY FROM WEST TO EAST. THIS AIRMASS CONTINUES TO SPREAD EAST TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. 07 && .AVIATION... 1142 AM MDT WED MAY 26 2010 FOR THE 18Z TAFS...MAIN AVIATION CONCERNS ARE POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOLLOWED BY LOW STRATUS/FOG POTENTIAL OVERNIGHT. THE AREA WILL SEE A GOOD POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH HAILERS AND STRONG WINDS A POSSIBILITY...PARTICULARLY AT KGLD. TIMING SOMEWHAT IN QUESTION SO HAVE OPTED TO INDICATE POTENTIAL WITH CB GROUPS AND WILL AMEND AS NECESSARY. BEST CHANCE FOR TSRA WILL BE AFTER 21Z AT KGLD AND 00Z AT KMCK. OVERNIGHT...GOOD POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR LOW STRATUS AND/OR REDUCED VSBYS ON CONTINUED SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW AND STABLE AIR. AT THIS TIME, LOW STRATUS APPEARS TO BE MORE LIKELY BUT PRECIP THIS EVENING AT THE TERMINALS MAY CERTAINLY INCREASE FOG RISK OVERNIGHT. 50 && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 11:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 26, 2:24 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 124 PM MDT WED MAY 26 2010 KSZ001-002-262000- CHEYENNE-RAWLINS- 224 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 218 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF MCDONALD...AND MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. THEDE
Special weather statement, May 26, 2:33 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 133 PM MDT WED MAY 26 2010 KSZ014-029-262000- GOVE-THOMAS- 233 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 229 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OAKLEY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THIS STORM INTENSIFIES AND BECOMES SEVERE. 50
Local storm report, May 26, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 minute 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 56 min |
| May 25, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 53 min |
| May 25, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 32 min |
| May 25, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 4 hr |
| May 25, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 56 min |
| May 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 3 hr |
| May 25, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 29 min |
| May 25, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 37 min |
| May 26, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 53 min |
| May 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 61 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.