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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Goodland, KS

July 29, 2014Greeley County, Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 29, 2014, 1:36 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at Jul 29, 2014, 8:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 2014, 1:36 PM MDT (19:36 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 29, 2014, 8:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 30, 2014, 9:29 AM MDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -207 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1262 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 29, 12:37 PM MDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 12:37 PM MDT, 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 10:35 AM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1035 AM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-301645-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1035 AM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014 /1135 AM CDT TUE JUL 29 2014/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND INCREASE IN COVERAGE AS THEY SPREAD INTO
EASTERN COLORADO...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TONIGHT.
INDIVIDUAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY...WITH THE
POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH
FLOODING. LOCATIONS WEST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 385 IN EASTERN COLORADO AND
SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 40 IN KANSAS HAVE THE BEST CHANCE FOR
SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE DIMINISHING WEDNESDAY
EVENING. THE PRIMARY HAZARD WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCALLY
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY PRODUCE AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING.
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY AND AGAIN ON MONDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH THESE STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT...BUT RAINFALL
AND ANY FLOODING REPORTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 5:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	17 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.