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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Goodland, KS

June 10, 2015Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jun 10, 2015, 11:58 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at Jun 11, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2015, 11:58 AM MDT (17:58 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 11, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 12, 2015, 3:57 AM MDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 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 Jun 10, 11:15 AM MDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 11:15 AM MDT, 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	27 min
Jun 10, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	61 min
Jun 10, 4:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	51 min
Jun 10, 4:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	13 min
Jun 10, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	28 min
Jun 10, 4:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	23 min
Jun 10, 5:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	25 min
Jun 10, 5:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	26 min
Jun 10, 5:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	25 min
Jun 10, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	31 min
Jun 10, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	32 min
Jun 10, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	17 min
Jun 10, 4:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	29 min
Jun 10, 5:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	34 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.