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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS

May 15, 2021Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 2021, 10:53 PM CDT for Gove 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 2021, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2021, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

563 
WGUS53 KGLD 160353
FFWGLD
KSC063-160630-
/O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0007.210516T0353Z-210516T0630Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
1053 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021

The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Southwestern Gove County in west central Kansas...

* Until 130 AM CDT.

* At 1053 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing 
  heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or 
  expected to begin shortly.

  HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

  SOURCE...Doppler radar.

  IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
           highways, streets and underpasses as well as other
           drainage and low lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
  The Monument Rocks.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3890 10081 3893 10054 3870 10051 3870 10082

FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED

$$

ANW

1 follow-up statement

885 
WGUS73 KGLD 160622
FFSGLD

Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
122 AM CDT Sun May 16 2021

KSC063-160632-
/O.EXP.KGLD.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-210516T0630Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Gove KS-
122 AM CDT Sun May 16 2021

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 130 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING 
FOR SOUTHWESTERN GOVE COUNTY...

The heavy rain has ended. Please continue to heed remaining road 
closures.

LAT...LON 3890 10081 3893 10054 3870 10051 3870 10082

$$

ANW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 8:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	41 min
May 15, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	34 min
May 15, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	36 min
May 15, 9:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Greeley	4 hr
May 15, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	44 min
May 15, 9:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Wichita	4 hr
May 15, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	45 min
May 15, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	55 min
May 15, 10:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	58 min
May 15, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	39 min
May 15, 10:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	3 hr
May 15, 10:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	58 min
May 15, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	42 min
May 15, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham, Sheridan, Thomas	55 min
May 15, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Wichita	2 hr
May 15, 11:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	40 min
May 15, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	15 min
May 16, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	41 min
May 16, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Norton, Rawlins	78 min
May 16, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham, Sheridan, Thomas	75 min
May 16, 12:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Logan	57 min
May 16, 1:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Wichita	5 hr
May 16, 1:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace, Wichita	5 hr
May 16, 2:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Graham	5 hr
May 16, 2:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	5 hr
May 16, 2:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	GLD	Gove, Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita	23 hr
May 16, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	57 min
May 16, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	63 min
May 16, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	41 min

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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.