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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

April 27, 2016Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this areal flood warning at Apr 27, 2016, 2:48 AM CDT for Rawlins 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 2016, 2:48 AM CDT (07:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2016, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Rawlins County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 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 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 Apr 27, 12:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 12:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 8:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
725 PM MDT TUE APR 26 2016

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-280130-
YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS-
DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-
GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
725 PM MDT TUE APR 26 2016 /825 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE
POSSIBLE THIS EVENING...WITH NUMEROUS LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS AND
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING MAINLY ALONG AND
EAST A MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO HILL CITY KANSAS LINE. THE MAIN THREATS
WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
AFTER MIDNIGHT IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. SOME OF
THESE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE...MAINLY ON FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 11:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 11:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 11:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 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
Apr 26, 11:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	24 min
Apr 26, 11:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	36 min
Apr 26, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	24 min
Apr 27, 2:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	3 hr
Apr 27, 3:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	3 hr
Apr 27, 3:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	3 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2016 Every areal flood warning in 2016

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.