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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1993, 9:02 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1993, 9:02 PM MDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1993, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kit Carson County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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, Jul 19, 3:02 PM MDT, 6 hours before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-200300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED ISSUE TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 300 PM MDT (400 PM CDT) MON JUL 19 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN CONTAIN HEAVY RAINFALL AND WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM HEAVY RAINS OF THE PAST FEW NIGHTS...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE REGION GENERALLY EAST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 83 FOR TONIGHT. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING EXISTS WITHIN THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY. BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FTOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 7:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:54 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Phillips, Rooks | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 6:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 11 min |
| Jul 19, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 37 min |
| Jul 19, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 8:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 69 min |
| Jul 20, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert, Lincoln | 56 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.