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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2016, 9:46 PM CDT for Decatur County, Norton 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
- Aug 26, 2016, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2016, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Decatur County, KS, Norton County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
293 WGUS53 KGLD 270246 FFWGLD KSC039-137-270545- /O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0052.160827T0246Z-160827T0545Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 946 PM CDT FRI AUG 26 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS... NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS... * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 945 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2 INCHES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... NORTON...LENORA...NORCATUR...JENNINGS...CLAYTON... EDMOND AND REAGER. 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. 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 4000 9984 3957 9982 3957 10032 4000 10040 $$ LOCKHART
1 follow-up statement
499 WGUS73 KGLD 270544 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1244 AM CDT SAT AUG 27 2016 KSC039-137-270554- /O.EXP.KGLD.FF.W.0052.000000T0000Z-160827T0545Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ DECATUR KS-NORTON KS- 1244 AM CDT SAT AUG 27 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EASTERN DECATUR AND NORTON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 1245 AM CDT... THE HEAVY RAIN OBSERVED EARLIER THIS EVENING HAS MOVED WELL OUT OF THE AREA AND MOST OF THE WATER HAS FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE STREAM CHANNELS. SOME PONDING OF WATER AND WITHIN CHANNEL RISES MAY STILL OCCUR OVERNIGHT, BUT FLASH FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS COVERED BY WATER, WHICH CAN BE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT. LAT...LON 4000 9984 3957 9982 3957 10032 4000 10040 $$ LOCKHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 4:35 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 45 min |
| Aug 27, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 43 min |
| Aug 27, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 40 min |
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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.