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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS

June 20, 2011Gove County, Sheridan County, Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2011, 3:02 PM CDT for Gove County, Sheridan County, Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2011, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Gove County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 20, 6:15 PM CDTFLASH FLOODHoxie, KSMANY STREETS IN HOXIE COVERED WITH WATER.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2011-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2011-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 255 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3175 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

955 
WGUS53 KGLD 202002
FFWGLD
KSC063-179-193-210200-
/O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0007.110620T2002Z-110621T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
302 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 301 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE
  WARNED AREA.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  ANGELUS...GOVE...GRAINFIELD...GRINNELL...HOXIE...MENLO...PARK...
  QUINTER...REXFORD...SEGUIN...TASCO AND THE MONUMENT ROCKS.

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 3870 10015 3870 10082 3948 10082 3947 10016

$$

LOCKHART

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne55 min
Jun 20, 3:48 AM CDTWind AdvisoryGLDCheyenne, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more23 hr
Jun 20, 3:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchGLDCheyenne17 hr
Jun 20, 5:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace41 min
Jun 20, 6:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Logan, Wallace39 min
Jun 20, 6:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Thomas, Wallace41 min
Jun 20, 7:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas51 min
Jun 20, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace64 min
Jun 20, 7:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan, Thomas67 min
Jun 20, 8:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Sherman, Wallace56 min
Jun 20, 9:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman47 min
Jun 20, 9:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins, Thomas59 min
Jun 20, 9:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley, Wichita26 min
Jun 20, 10:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita44 min
Jun 20, 10:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins61 min
Jun 20, 10:53 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita52 min
Jun 20, 11:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove25 min
Jun 20, 12:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Graham, Sheridan58 min
Jun 20, 12:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Graham, Sheridan52 min
Jun 20, 1:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan64 min
Jun 20, 1:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins30 min
Jun 20, 1:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace6 hr
Jun 20, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham, Norton27 min
Jun 20, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins51 min
Jun 20, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton34 min
Jun 20, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton18 min
Jun 20, 3:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan31 min
Jun 20, 4:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas3 hr
Jun 20, 4:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur29 min
Jun 20, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas35 min
Jun 20, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan17 min
Jun 20, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Sheridan42 min
Jun 20, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan63 min
Jun 20, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan1 min
Jun 20, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur60 min
Jun 20, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Norton65 min
Jun 20, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Sheridan56 min
Jun 20, 6:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas6 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.