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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 30, 2017, 2:33 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Jul 30, 2017, 4:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2017, 2:33 PM MDT (20:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 30, 2017, 4:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2017, 3:29 AM MDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 Jul 30, 11:16 AM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 11:16 AM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 6:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 24 min |
| Jul 29, 11:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 4 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:06 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 3 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.