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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Sep 3, 2016, 12:48 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Sep 3, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2016, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 3, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2016, 5:49 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Sep 3, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1040 AM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-041200- YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS- DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE- GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1040 AM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016 /1140 AM CDT SAT SEP 3 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE TRI STATE AREA AROUND MIDDAY...INCREASING IN COVERAGE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THREATS INCLUDE LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND A FEW TORNADOES. IF HEAVY RAINFALL OCCUR AT LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED HIGH RAINFALL AMOUNTS LAST NIGHT...FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR RAPIDLY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAIN REGION ALMOST EVERY PERIOD THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FEW THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 3, 8:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 9:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wallace | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 11:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 60 min |
| Sep 3, 12:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Wallace | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 2:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 20 min |
| Sep 3, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 52 min |
| Sep 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 60 min |
| Sep 3, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 16 min |
| Sep 2, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 51 min |
| Sep 2, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 5 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 12 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 16 min |
| Sep 3, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 13 min |
| Sep 3, 6:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 8 min |
| Sep 3, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 27 min |
| Sep 3, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 38 min |
| Sep 2, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 27 min |
| Sep 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 16 min |
| Sep 2, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Dundy | 5 hr |
| Sep 2, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 38 min |
| Sep 3, 2:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Dundy | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 11 min |
| Sep 3, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 44 min |
| Sep 3, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 9 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2016Flash Flood Watches in Colorado, 2016Flash Flood Watches in Nebraska, 2016Every flash flood watch 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.