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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS

May 27, 2017Sheridan County, Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this areal flood warning at May 27, 2017, 8:56 AM CDT for Sheridan County, Thomas 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2017, 8:56 AM CDT (13:56 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2017, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -312 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 423 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 686 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at May 27, 6:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 6:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 4:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 3:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 3:23 AM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 4:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 8:40 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 8:53 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Sherman	17 min
May 26, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	57 min
May 26, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	28 min
May 26, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	56 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	5 hr
May 26, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	48 min
May 26, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	48 min
May 26, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	38 min
May 26, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	50 min
May 26, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	50 min
May 26, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	31 min
May 26, 11:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman	54 min
May 26, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	36 min
May 26, 11:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	41 min
May 26, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	65 min
May 26, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	3 hr
May 26, 11:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	15 min
May 26, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	63 min
May 27, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	21 min
May 27, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	15 min
May 27, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	58 min
May 27, 12:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	26 min
May 27, 1:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	24 min
May 27, 1:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	17 min
May 27, 1:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	38 min
May 27, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	24 min
May 27, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	49 min
May 27, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	17 min
May 27, 1:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	30 min
May 27, 1:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	19 min
May 27, 2:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	32 min
May 27, 2:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	9 hr
May 27, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	37 min
May 27, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	37 min
May 26, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	52 min
May 26, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	12 min
May 26, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	66 min
May 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	47 min
May 26, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	39 min
May 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	48 min
May 26, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	17 min
May 26, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	39 min
May 26, 9:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	6 hr
May 26, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	56 min
May 26, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	24 min
May 26, 11:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	3 hr
May 27, 12:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	24 min
May 27, 12:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	28 min
May 27, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	18 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.