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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Aug 3, 2013, 9:25 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at Aug 3, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2013, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 3, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2013, 5:07 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Aug 3, 9:25 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 9:25 PM CDT, 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 11:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 57 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2013Flash Flood Watches in Colorado, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013
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.