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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Sep 6, 2016, 3:34 AM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Sep 6, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 2016, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 6, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2016, 12:51 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 6, 2:57 AM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:57 AM CDT, 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 33 min |
| Sep 6, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 26 min |
| Sep 6, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 35 min |
| Sep 6, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 51 min |
| Sep 6, 6:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 8 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 33 min |
| Sep 6, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 29 min |
| Sep 6, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 48 min |
| Sep 6, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 47 min |
| Sep 5, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 17 min |
| Sep 5, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 18 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 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.