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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Goodland, KS

August 12, 1993Elbert County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 1993, 5:24 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1993, 5:24 PM MDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1993, 8:04 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Elbert County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1993-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 155 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1993-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-247 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 3:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert36 min
Aug 12, 3:46 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDElbert29 min
Aug 12, 3:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDTeller63 min
Aug 12, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert43 min
Aug 12, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert68 min
Aug 12, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso46 min
Aug 12, 5:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLincoln47 min
Aug 12, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne66 min
Aug 12, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert56 min
Aug 12, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso56 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.