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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 8, 2014Kimball County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2014, 2:25 PM MDT for Kimball County, Nebraska. 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
Jun 8, 2014, 2:25 PM MDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2014, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Kimball County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 430 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-348 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 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.

788 
WGUS55 KCYS 082025
FFWCYS
NEC105-090230-
/O.NEW.KCYS.FF.W.0013.140608T2025Z-140609T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
225 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN KIMBALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT

* AT 223 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE      
  WARNED AREA. RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE 1.00   
  TO 1.50 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 NEAR THE  
  COLORADO BORDER WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN EXPECTED OVER   
  THE NEXT 2 HOURS. 

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

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 4116 10368 4118 10338 4100 10339 4099 10374

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 11:46 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementCYSKimball44 min
Jun 8, 12:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementCYSKimball50 min
Jun 8, 12:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningCYSKimball6 hr
Jun 8, 12:57 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSKimball33 min
Jun 8, 1:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementCYSKimball58 min
Jun 8, 1:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementCYSMorrill37 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.