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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2010, 6:41 AM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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 7, 2010, 6:41 AM CDT (11:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2010, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:42 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 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
875 WGUS53 KGLD 071141 FFWGLD KSC063-071730- /O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0021.100707T1141Z-100707T1730Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 641 AM CDT WED JUL 7 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1230 PM CDT * AT 635 AM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN ONE HOUR NEAR GOVE WITH OVER 3.5 INCHES OF TOTAL RAINFALL OCCURING OVERNIGHT 2 MILES EAST OF GOVE. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... GOVE...GRAINFIELD...PARK...QUINTER AND THE MONUMENT ROCKS. WATER IS RUNNING IN THE STREETS OF GOVE WITH MINOR NUISANCE FLOODING ALSO BEING REPORTED IN LOW LYING AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY... COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3912 10017 3871 10016 3871 10079 3912 10079 $$ LOCKHART
2 follow-up statements
265 WGUS73 KGLD 071434 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 834 AM MDT WED JUL 7 2010 KSC063-071730- /O.CON.KGLD.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100707T1730Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ GOVE KS- 934 AM CDT WED JUL 7 2010 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GOVE COUNTY UNTIL 1230 PM CDT... AT 933 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 2 TO 4 INCHES HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...GOVE...GRAINFIELD...PARK... QUINTER AND THE MONUMENT ROCKS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. && LAT...LON 3912 10017 3871 10016 3871 10079 3912 10079 $$ 024
486 WGUS73 KGLD 071726 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1126 AM MDT WED JUL 7 2010 KSC063-071741- /O.EXP.KGLD.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100707T1730Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ GOVE KS- 1226 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2010 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR GOVE COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1130 AM MDT/1230 PM CDT/... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 3912 10017 3871 10016 3871 10079 3912 10079 $$ 024
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 24 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.