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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2012, 11:28 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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
- Aug 23, 2012, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2012, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 11:35 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 2.39 | Gove, KS | STILL RAINING. |
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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
376 WGUS53 KGLD 240428 FFWGLD KSC063-240730- /O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0006.120824T0428Z-120824T0730Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1128 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 1127 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 3.64 INCHES HAS FALLEN SO FAR AT 5 ESE OF GOVE. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...GOVE. LAT...LON 3870 10015 3870 10051 3905 10051 3899 10015 $$ LUNDQUIST
1 follow-up statement
034 WGUS73 KGLD 240728 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 128 AM MDT FRI AUG 24 2012 KSC063-240741- /O.EXP.KGLD.FF.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120824T0730Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ GOVE KS- 228 AM CDT FRI AUG 24 2012 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN GOVE COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 130 AM MDT/230 AM CDT/... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. A SMALL AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST GOVE COUNTY BY 230 AM CDT AND CONTINUE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE COUNTY THROUGH 430 AM CDT. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A HALF INCH TO INCH ARE POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3870 10015 3870 10051 3905 10051 3899 10015 $$ THEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 40 min |
| Aug 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 23 min |
| Aug 23, 8:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 18 min |
| Aug 23, 8:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 14 min |
| Aug 23, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 7:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 22 min |
| Aug 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 15 min |
| Aug 24, 6:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 18 min |
| Aug 24, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 26 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.