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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

May 26, 2017Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2017, 10:06 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2017, 10:06 PM MDT (04:06 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2017, 11:00 PM MDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 1044 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 9.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

973 
WGUS53 KGLD 270406
FFWGLD
KSC181-270500-
/O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0013.170527T0406Z-170527T0500Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
1006 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 2017

The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Northeastern Sherman County in northwestern Kansas...

* Until 1100 PM MDT

* At 1005 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
  heavy rain across the warned area. Up to two inches of rain have
  already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.

* Flash flooding will remain over mainly rural areas of northeastern
  Sherman County.

Additional rainfall amounts of one to two inches are possible in the 
warned area.

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.

Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small
creeks and streams, country roads, farmland, and other low lying
spots.

&&

LAT...LON 3935 10139 3934 10160 3957 10162 3957 10139

$$

DR

The office that day

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

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

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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.