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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS

August 3, 2015Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2015, 8:37 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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: Aug 3, 2015, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2015, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 1121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

734 
WGUS53 KGLD 040137
FFWGLD
KSC203-040430-
/O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0049.150804T0137Z-150804T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
837 PM CDT MON AUG 3 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WICHITA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
    
* AT 837 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  LEOTI AND SELKIRK. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

&&

LAT...LON 3868 10135 3857 10126 3845 10125 3837 10156
      3862 10156

$$

JN

2 follow-up statements

210 
WGUS73 KGLD 040207
FFSGLD

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
907 PM CDT MON AUG 3 2015

KSC203-040430-
/O.CON.KGLD.FF.W.0049.000000T0000Z-150804T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WICHITA KS-
907 PM CDT MON AUG 3 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN WICHITA COUNTY...

AT 907 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY
RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.  FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LEOTI AND SELKIRK. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

&&

LAT...LON 3868 10135 3857 10126 3845 10125 3837 10156
      3862 10156

$$

JN

703 
WGUS73 KGLD 040303
FFSGLD

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1003 PM CDT MON AUG 3 2015

KSC203-040313-
/O.CAN.KGLD.FF.W.0049.000000T0000Z-150804T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WICHITA KS-
1003 PM CDT MON AUG 3 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WICHITA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE
A THREAT.

LAT...LON 3868 10135 3857 10126 3845 10125 3837 10156
      3862 10156

$$

JN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	51 min
Aug 3, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	41 min
Aug 3, 9:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Greeley	3 hr
Aug 4, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	61 min
Aug 4, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	51 min
Aug 4, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	46 min
Aug 4, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	46 min
Aug 4, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	46 min
Aug 4, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	44 min
Aug 4, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	52 min
Aug 4, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	39 min
Aug 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	49 min
Aug 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	34 min
Aug 4, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	26 min
Aug 4, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	45 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	53 min
Aug 4, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	19 min
Aug 4, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	58 min
Aug 4, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	54 min
Aug 4, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	49 min
Aug 4, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	36 min
Aug 4, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	63 min
Aug 4, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	59 min
Aug 4, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	22 min
Aug 4, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	28 min
Aug 4, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	39 min
Aug 4, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	51 min
Aug 4, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton, Sheridan	65 min
Aug 4, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	51 min
Aug 4, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	21 min
Aug 4, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.