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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Goodland, KS

July 28, 2023Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2023, 11:23 PM CDT for Logan 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2023, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2023, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Jul 28, 9:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 9:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 9:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
809 PM MDT Fri Jul 28 2023

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-300215-
Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-
Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-
Red Willow-
809 PM MDT Fri Jul 28 2023 /909 PM CDT Fri Jul 28 2023/

This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska...
northwest Kansas and east central Colorado.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms will move into far eastern
Colorado continuing east into parts of western Kansas and extreme
southwest Nebraska through about midnight before slowly dissipating
and weakening.

The primary hazards will be damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph and
hail up to one inch in diameter. There will be a heightened threat
for blowing dust and significant reductions in visibility on the
leading edge any thunderstorm outflow that develops with blowing
dust and dust storm conditions possible. The area of greatest
concern is along and west of Kansas Highway 25 and along and north of
Interstate 70 from around 8 PM MDT to 10 PM MDT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

Scattered thunderstorms are anticipated to move into the Tri-State
area Saturday night. The primary hazards will be large hail and wind
gusts up to 70 mph.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will be needed from 8 PM MDT (9 PM CDT) through
11 PM MDT (12 AM CDT). We would appreciate reports of severe weather
and blowing dust via telephone and social media.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 10:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 10:26 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 11:00 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 11:07 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 11:20 PM CDT, 3 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
Jul 28, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	32 min
Jul 28, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	79 min
Jul 28, 9:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	29 min
Jul 28, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	41 min
Jul 28, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	28 min
Jul 28, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	25 min
Jul 28, 10:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	22 min
Jul 28, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	34 min
Jul 28, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	63 min
Jul 28, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	9 min
Jul 28, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	30 min
Jul 28, 11:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	38 min
Jul 28, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	35 min
Jul 28, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove, Logan	63 min
Jul 28, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	35 min
Jul 28, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	3 hr
Jul 28, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	32 min
Jul 28, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	33 min
Jul 29, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	33 min
Jul 29, 12:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	35 min
Jul 29, 12:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove, Thomas	2 hr
Jul 29, 12:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove	2 hr
Jul 29, 1:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	36 min
Jul 29, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	34 min
Jul 29, 2:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	28 min
Jul 29, 2:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	8 hr
Jul 29, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	40 min
Jul 29, 3:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Thomas	7 hr
Jul 29, 3:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Gove	7 hr
Jul 28, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	44 min
Jul 28, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	46 min
Jul 28, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	31 min
Jul 28, 7:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	37 min
Jul 28, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	41 min
Jul 28, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	38 min
Jul 28, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
Jul 28, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	39 min
Jul 28, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	30 min
Jul 28, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	28 min
Jul 28, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	29 min
Jul 29, 12:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	38 min
Jul 29, 5:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	24 min

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.