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Areal Flood Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this areal flood warning at Sep 2, 2016, 11:53 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2016, 11:53 PM MDT (05:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2016, 8:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Sep 2, 11:36 PM MDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 11:36 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 2, 10:36 AM MDT, 13 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1036 AM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-031200- YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS- DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE- GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1036 AM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016 /1136 AM CDT FRI SEP 2 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN EASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE, ROUGHLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BENKELMAN TO GOODLAND TO TRIBUNE, WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAIN REGION EACH DAY THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. ON SATURDAY...A FEW THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 7:59 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
759 PM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016
KSZ013-027-030230-
WALLACE KS-SHERMAN KS-
759 PM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN WALLACE AND SOUTH
CENTRAL SHERMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM MDT...
AT 759 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES SOUTH OF RULETON TO 12 MILES NORTH OF
SHARON SPRINGS TO 9 MILES NORTH OF WESKAN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25
MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN WALLACE
AND SOUTH CENTRAL SHERMAN COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH
FLOODED ROADWAYS.
THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 3895 10205 3897 10205 3904 10194 3909 10190
3917 10197 3925 10158 3911 10148 3906 10148
3895 10155
TIME...MOT...LOC 0159Z 265DEG 23KT 3913 10182 3907 10172 3899 10191
HUSTEDSpecial weather statement, Sep 2, 8:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
814 PM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016
NEZ079-030230-
DUNDY NE-
814 PM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN DUNDY COUNTY UNTIL
830 PM MDT...
AT 814 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14
MILES SOUTH OF CRETE...OR 21 MILES NORTHEAST OF WRAY...MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN DUNDY
COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 4015 10172 4018 10202 4032 10200 4035 10178
4035 10172
TIME...MOT...LOC 0214Z 263DEG 16KT 4025 10189
HUSTEDSpecial weather statement, Sep 2, 8:52 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
852 PM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016
NEZ079-030330-
DUNDY NE-
852 PM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN DUNDY COUNTY UNTIL
930 PM MDT...
AT 852 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11
MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHURCH GROVE CAMPGROUND...OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF
IMPERIAL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN DUNDY
COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 4021 10140 4020 10179 4034 10181 4035 10178
4035 10144
TIME...MOT...LOC 0252Z 254DEG 15KT 4028 10169
HUSTEDLocal storm report, Sep 2, 9:37 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
937 PM MDT FRI SEP 02 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0650 PM HEAVY RAIN 6 WNW WAUNETA 40.32N 102.36W
09/02/2016 M5.50 INCH YUMA CO EMERGENCY MNGR
REPORT FORWARDED TO THE OFFICE VIA NWSCHAT FROM EMERGENCY
MANAGER.
&&
RHUSTEDSpecial weather statement, Sep 2, 10:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1015 PM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016
KSZ014-027-028-041-030515-
WALLACE KS-GREELEY KS-LOGAN KS-THOMAS KS-
1015 PM MDT FRI SEP 2 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WALLACE...NORTHWESTERN GREELEY...
SOUTHWESTERN THOMAS AND LOGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 1115 PM MDT/1215 AM
CDT/...
AT 1014 PM MDT/1114 PM CDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF WESKAN...OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHARON SPRINGS...WESKAN...WINONA...WALLACE AND RUSSELL SPRINGS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3897 10203 3914 10146 3914 10139 3916 10139
3923 10114 3877 10097 3864 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0414Z 239DEG 19KT 3872 10190
JNLocal storm report, Sep 2, 10:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1031 PM MDT FRI SEP 02 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0930 PM FLASH FLOOD 15 NNW FIRSTVIEW 39.01N 102.65W
09/02/2016 CHEYENNE CO STORM CHASER
6 INCHES OF WATER OVER COUNTY ROAD 28 BETWEEN DD AND FF.
3 INCHES OF RAINFALL MEASURED NEAR SAME LOCATION.
&&
DRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 7:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 7:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 8:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wallace | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 60 min |
| Sep 3, 12:06 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 1:14 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 11:48 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more | 17 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 20 min |
| Sep 3, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 52 min |
| Sep 3, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 60 min |
| Sep 3, 5:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 16 min |
| Sep 2, 6:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 6:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 51 min |
| Sep 2, 6:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 7:22 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 5 hr |
| Sep 2, 9:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 12 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 16 min |
| Sep 3, 5:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 13 min |
| Sep 3, 5:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 8 min |
| Sep 3, 5:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 27 min |
| Sep 3, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 38 min |
| Sep 2, 7:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 27 min |
| Sep 2, 7:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 8:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 16 min |
| Sep 2, 8:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Dundy | 5 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 38 min |
| Sep 3, 1:06 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Dundy | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 11 min |
| Sep 3, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 44 min |
| Sep 3, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 5:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 9 hr |
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.