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Flood Watch 13, NWS Goodland, KS

August 8, 202313 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 8, 2023, 2:55 AM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Aug 9, 2023, 6:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 8, 2023, 2:55 AM CDT (07:55 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 9, 2023, 6:00 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 8, 2023, 2:58 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 418 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 6.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Aug 8, 2:42 AM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:42 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 10:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 7, 10:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 11:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 8, 12:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 8, 1:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:57 AM CDT, 58 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
Aug 7, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	28 min
Aug 7, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	58 min
Aug 7, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	54 min
Aug 7, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	3 hr
Aug 7, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas	51 min
Aug 7, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	62 min
Aug 7, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Wallace	79 min
Aug 7, 7:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	14 min
Aug 7, 7:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman	3 hr
Aug 7, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove	37 min
Aug 7, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	34 min
Aug 7, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	61 min
Aug 7, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita	70 min
Aug 7, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	24 min
Aug 7, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	30 min
Aug 7, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	31 min
Aug 7, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	58 min
Aug 7, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	37 min
Aug 7, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	27 min
Aug 7, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	33 min
Aug 7, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	23 min
Aug 8, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	33 min
Aug 8, 1:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	18 min
Aug 8, 2:58 AM CDT	Flood Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	25 hr
Aug 7, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	21 min
Aug 7, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	60 min
Aug 7, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	33 min
Aug 7, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	25 min
Aug 8, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	64 min
Aug 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	46 min
Aug 8, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	37 min
Aug 8, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Yuma	93 min
Aug 8, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	32 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.