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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 2016, 9:52 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 6, 2016, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2016, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Graham County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted.
065 WGUS53 KGLD 070252 FFWGLD KSC065-070645- /O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0079.160907T0252Z-160907T0645Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 952 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS... * UNTIL 145 AM CDT * AT 951 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... HILL CITY...MORLAND...BOGUE AND PENOKEE. 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 3956 9962 3928 9962 3928 10015 3956 10015 $$ JN
1 follow-up statement
166 WGUS73 KGLD 070650 RRA FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 150 AM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 KSC065-070700- /O.EXP.KGLD.FF.W.0079.000000T0000Z-160907T0645Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ GRAHAM KS- 150 AM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GRAHAM COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED TUESDAY EVENING WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF RURAL AREAS IMPACTING COUNTY ROADS. REFER TO THE AREAL FLOOD WARNING STATEMENT FOR DETAILS ON THIS THREAT AND PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES. LAT...LON 3956 9962 3928 9962 3928 10015 3956 10015 $$ DR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 11 min |
| Sep 6, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 33 min |
| Sep 6, 7:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 39 min |
| Sep 6, 8:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 56 min |
| Sep 6, 8:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 44 min |
| Sep 6, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 61 min |
| Sep 6, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 44 min |
| Sep 6, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 36 min |
| Sep 6, 10:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 74 min |
| Sep 6, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 72 min |
| Sep 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 1:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 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.