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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Goodland, KS

May 29, 2023Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2023, 6:23 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. 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 29, 2023, 6:23 PM MDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2023, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 29, 5:46 PM MDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 5:46 PM MDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 12:35 PM MDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 4:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 5:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 5:44 PM MDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 6:13 PM MDT, 10 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 29, 9:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	28 min
May 29, 10:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	53 min
May 30, 12:19 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	26 min
May 30, 1:04 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	26 min
May 30, 2:15 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	106 min
May 30, 3:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	30 min
May 30, 3:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	24 min
May 30, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	63 min
May 30, 4:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	31 min
May 30, 4:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Graham	3 hr
May 30, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	30 min
May 30, 4:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	36 min
May 30, 4:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	3 hr
May 30, 4:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	58 min
May 30, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	64 min
May 30, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	60 min
May 30, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	25 min
May 30, 5:16 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	3 hr
May 30, 5:18 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	3 hr
May 30, 5:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	53 min
May 30, 5:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	34 min
May 30, 5:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	2 hr
May 30, 5:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Thomas	2 hr
May 30, 5:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	43 min
May 30, 5:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	36 min
May 30, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	32 min
May 29, 7:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	32 min
May 29, 7:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	32 min
May 30, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	65 min
May 30, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	44 min
May 29, 6:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	47 min
May 29, 6:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	32 min
May 29, 7:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	29 min
May 29, 8:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	29 min
May 29, 9:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	48 min
May 29, 10:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	43 min
May 29, 10:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	3 hr
May 30, 12:45 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	30 min
May 30, 12:57 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	6 hr
May 30, 1:14 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	31 min
May 30, 1:45 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	30 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.