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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Aug 26, 2014, 4:52 AM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Aug 26, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2014, 4:52 AM CDT (09:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 26, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2014, 5:16 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 12:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 12:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 5:44 PM CDT, 11 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 444 PM MDT MON AUG 25 2014 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-260630- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 444 PM MDT MON AUG 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS EVENING...TRANSITIONING NORTH AND EAST THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TRI STATE AREA FROM TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. IN ADDITION...THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED FLASH FLOOD THREAT WITH SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 12:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 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 25, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 44 min |
| Aug 25, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 6:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 40 min |
| Aug 25, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 12:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 40 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2014Flash Flood Watches in Colorado, 2014Flash Flood Watches in Nebraska, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.