Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1986, 7:45 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 75 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1986, 7:45 PM MDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1986, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:06 PM MDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 300 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 AT 300 PM CDT SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND EASTERN COLORADO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS WERE 10 MILES EAST AND 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST FRANCIS IN CHEYENNE AND RAWLINS COUNTIES... 15 MILES EAST OF SHARON SPRINGS IN LOGAN COUNTY AND NEAR HILL CITY IN GRAHAM COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP INT;O THE EVENING HOURS. WORKMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 515 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 AT 515 RADAR INDICATES VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING IN NORTHWEST KANSAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. THE HEAVIEST STORMS ARE IN SHERIDAN COUNTY JUST NORTH OF HOXIE... IN TREGO COUNTY IN THE COLLYER AREA WHICH IS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAKEENEY...AND IN THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST CORNER OF GOVE COUNTY OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOVE. THE HEAVIER STORM CENTERS WILL HAVE GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS ...AND THE CHANCE OF SOME SMALL HAIL. THE WEATHER OBSERVER IN THE ST PETER AREA REPORTED RAINFALL OF 2.75 INCHES. MYERS
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 555 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 AT 555PM RADAR INDICATES VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING IN NORTHWEST KANSAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS AND THE HEAVY RAINFALL INDICATED THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME LOW LAND FLOODING AND WATER OVER SOME ROADS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS. THE AFFECTED AREA IS MAINLY GOVE AND TREGO COUNTIES WHERE A 15 MILE WIDE AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED. THE STORMS EXTEND FROM THE WAKEENEY AREA SOUTHWEST TO JUST SOUTH OF GOVE...SOUTHWEST TO THE SCOTT LAKE AREA WHICH IS 10 MILES NORTH OF SCOTT CITY. THE HEAVIER STORM CENTERS WILL HAVE GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS ...AND THE CHANCE OF SOME SMALL HAIL. MYERS
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 6:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 705 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 705 PM CDT A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WEST CENTRAL KANSAS FROM NEAR CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR IN TREGO COUNTY TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTT CITY IN SCOTT COUNTY. ANOTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF OBERLIN IN NORTHERN DECATU&R COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SOME SMALL HAIL AND POSSIBLY SOME FLOODING IN LOW LEVEL AREAS. WORKMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 7:06 PM MDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 805 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS DECREASING OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 805 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS WAS DECREASING IN INTENSITY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF NORTON IN NORTHERN NORTON COUNTY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF WEST CENTRAL KANSAS WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM NEAR CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR IN TREGO COUNTY TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTT CITY IN SCOTT COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH IN INTENSITY BUT STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AS THEY M^OVE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. WORKMAN
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.