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Areal Flood Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

May 26, 2016Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this areal flood warning at May 26, 2016, 11:57 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 12 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: May 26, 2016, 11:57 PM CDT (04:57 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 May 26, 10:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 10:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 11:31 AM CDT, 12 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1031 AM MDT THU MAY 26 2016

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-271645-
YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS-
DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-
GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1031 AM MDT THU MAY 26 2016 /1131 AM CDT THU MAY 26 2016/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY
BY THIS AFTERNOON...AND CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. ACROSS
MOST OF THE AREA...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL GREATER THAN 2
INCHES IN DIAMETER AND STRONG TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE
PERIOD. EVEN THOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...
A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE FROM FRIDAY INTO MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 10:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 10:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 10:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 11:04 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 11:33 PM CDT, 24 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
May 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	37 min
May 26, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	32 min
May 26, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	47 min
May 26, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	52 min
May 26, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	44 min
May 26, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Rawlins	53 min
May 26, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Rawlins	34 min
May 26, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	51 min
May 26, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	46 min
May 26, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	42 min
May 26, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	52 min
May 26, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	51 min
May 26, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton	51 min
May 26, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Rawlins	34 min
May 26, 8:45 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	73 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	27 min
May 26, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	52 min
May 26, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	43 min
May 26, 9:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	3 hr
May 26, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton	48 min
May 26, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more	45 min
May 27, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	34 min
May 27, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	43 min
May 27, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	24 min
May 27, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Greeley	24 min
May 27, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	34 min
May 27, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	32 min
May 27, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	33 min
May 27, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	15 min
May 27, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	34 min
May 27, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	15 min
May 27, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	27 min
May 27, 5:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Greeley	3 hr
May 27, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	28 min
May 27, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	15 min
May 27, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	35 min
May 27, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	26 min
May 27, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	20 min
May 27, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	33 min
May 27, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	15 min
May 27, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	23 min
May 27, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	28 min
May 27, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	10 min
May 26, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	51 min
May 26, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Yuma	3 hr
May 26, 11:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Yuma	12 hr
May 27, 12:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	57 min
May 27, 12:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	20 min
May 27, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	12 min
May 27, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	27 min
May 27, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	21 min
May 27, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	22 min
May 27, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	26 min
May 27, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	32 min
May 27, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	35 min
May 27, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
May 27, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	30 min
May 27, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	21 min
May 26, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	34 min
May 26, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Red Willow	48 min
May 26, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	34 min
May 26, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	46 min
May 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	48 min
May 26, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	49 min
May 26, 9:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy	3 hr
May 26, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	49 min
May 26, 9:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Red Willow	27 min
May 26, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	30 min
May 26, 11:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy	12 hr
May 27, 12:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	36 min
May 27, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	26 min
May 27, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	14 min
May 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	30 min
May 27, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	16 min
May 27, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	18 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2016 Areal Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 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.