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Flash Flood Watch 8, NWS Goodland, KS

August 16, 20155 counties in Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Aug 16, 2015, 9:49 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Aug 16, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 2015, 9:49 AM CDT (14:49 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 16, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 16, 2015, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 2198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 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 Aug 16, 5:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 5:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 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
Aug 16, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	20 min
Aug 16, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	44 min
Aug 16, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	20 min
Aug 16, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	48 min
Aug 16, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	18 min
Aug 16, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	37 min
Aug 16, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	36 min
Aug 16, 5:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	3 hr
Aug 16, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	29 min
Aug 16, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	33 min
Aug 16, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	22 min
Aug 16, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Wallace	46 min
Aug 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	35 min
Aug 15, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	16 min
Aug 15, 11:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	27 min
Aug 16, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	15 min
Aug 16, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	16 min
Aug 16, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	14 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.