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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

June 12, 2016Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2016, 11:52 PM CDT for Logan 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2016, 11:52 PM CDT (04:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2016, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

844 
WGUS53 KGLD 130452
FFWGLD
KSC109-130745-
/O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0021.160613T0452Z-160613T0745Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1152 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 1150 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN
  HAVE FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN WITHIN AN HOUR AS
  ANOTHER LINE OF STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL MOVES OVER THE
  AREA.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  RUSSELL SPRINGS.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA AS THE NEXT LINE OF STORMS MOVES THROUGH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

&&

LAT...LON 3897 10140 3905 10114 3890 10086 3870 10097
      3870 10140

$$

HUSTED

2 follow-up statements

846 
WGUS73 KGLD 130656
FFSGLD

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
156 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2016

KSC109-130745-
/O.CON.KGLD.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160613T0745Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LOGAN KS-
156 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR
LOGAN COUNTY...

AT 154 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 1 TO ALMOST 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
RUSSELL SPRINGS.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO A HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

&&

LAT...LON 3897 10140 3905 10114 3890 10086 3870 10097
      3870 10140

$$

BULLER

983 
WGUS73 KGLD 130744
FFSGLD

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
244 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2016

KSC109-130753-
/O.EXP.KGLD.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160613T0745Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LOGAN KS-
244 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LOGAN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 245 AM
CDT...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.

LAT...LON 3897 10140 3905 10114 3890 10086 3870 10097
      3870 10140

$$

LUNDQUIST

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	10 min
Jun 12, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	34 min
Jun 12, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	26 min
Jun 12, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	18 min
Jun 12, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	49 min
Jun 12, 10:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	32 min
Jun 12, 10:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	22 min
Jun 12, 10:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Greeley	6 hr
Jun 12, 10:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	32 min
Jun 12, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	30 min
Jun 13, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Wichita	39 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.