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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Goodland, KS

May 26, 2023Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2023, 9:29 AM CDT for Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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 26, 2023, 9:29 AM CDT (14:29 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2023, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at May 26, 5:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 5:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 3:03 AM CDT, 6 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 8:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 8:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 8:32 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 8:33 AM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 8:35 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 8:37 AM CDT, 52 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 25, 7:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Norton	3 hr
May 25, 8:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman	3 hr
May 25, 9:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	13 hr
May 25, 9:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Thomas	13 hr
May 26, 12:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	13 hr
May 26, 1:45 AM CDT	Flood Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more	25 hr
May 26, 10:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur	5 hr
May 26, 2:25 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur	30 hr
May 26, 2:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	4 days
May 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	49 min
May 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	40 min
May 25, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	51 min
May 25, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	31 min
May 25, 9:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Yuma	3 hr
May 25, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	60 min
May 25, 9:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy	3 hr
May 26, 12:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy	6 hr
May 26, 12:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	31 min
May 26, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	43 min
May 26, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Hitchcock	22 min
May 26, 4:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	GLD	Hitchcock	9 hr
May 26, 6:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy	7 hr
May 26, 6:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	7 hr
May 26, 6:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	6 hr
May 26, 7:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	62 hr
May 26, 7:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	7 hr
May 26, 8:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Red Willow	6 hr
May 26, 8:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	6 hr
May 26, 9:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GLD	Red Willow	51 hr
May 26, 10:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GLD	Red Willow	28 hr
May 26, 12:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	71 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.