Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 1993, 7:06 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1993, 7:06 PM MDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1993, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOS 180106 FFWCOS COC041-180315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 706 PM MDT THU JUN 17 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM MDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY CREEKS AND STREAMS AROUND TOWN CONTINUED RISING WITH RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER...NEAR BANKFUL MANY LOCATIONS...OVER BANKFUL NUMEROUS LOCATIONS WEST SIDE. MANY LOW LYING INTERSECTIONS WEST AND NORTH SECTIONS OF TOWN CONTINUED FLOODING AS WELL. REPORTS OF BASEMENT FLOODING ON THE WEST SIDE THROUGH MANITOU SPRINGS HAVE ALSO BEEN RECEIVED. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND AREAS OF LOCAL FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS OVER PORTIONS OF WEST AND NORTH COLORADO SPRINGS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. CROWLEY
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 17, 3:05 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
KSZ001-002-004-005-172200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 305 PM MDT (405 PM CDT) THU JUN 17 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 3 PM MDT..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTEREED OVER A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE AREA WAS 75 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM THE GARDEN CITY AREA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF NORTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL GOVE COUNTY..NEAR GRANFIELD..OR ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL..GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY BETWEEN 4 AND 430 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PERPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DORSEY &
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 4:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 405 PM MDT (505 PM CDT) THU JUN 17 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHEAST LOGAN COUNTY... AT 4 PM MDT..AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS COVERED A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST KANSAS FROM JUST NORTH OF GARDEN CITY TO NEAR THE NEBRASKA NEAR NORTON. THE AREA WAS 50 TO 75 MILES WIDE AND HAS INCREASED IN AREAL COVERAGE SINCE 3 PM MDT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A VERY INTENSE STORM WAS OVER NORTHEAST LOGAN COUNTY..JUST EAST OF PAGE CITY OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS SMALL HAIL..AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST THOMAS COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST SHERIDAN COUNTY CAN EXPECTED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS THIS STORM MOVES INTO THEIR AREA BY 5 30 PM CDT. DORSEY &
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-180000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 504 PM MDT (604 PM CDT) THU JUN 17 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DECREASING IN INTENSITY OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 455 PM MDT..AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS. THE AREA..50 TO 75 MILES WIDE..EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND TO NEAR NORTON. THE STRONGER STORMS IN THE AREA AT 455 PM MDT WERE OVER SOUTHEAST SHERMAN COUNTY..15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND..TO SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY..ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS..ESTIMATED AT 50 MPH..WERE REPORTED JUST NORTOF HILL CITY AT ABOUT 530 PM CDT..AND RAINFALLS IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS. SOME MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED WEST OF HILL CITY NEAR MORELAND IN WESTERN GRAHAM COUNTY SINCE 5 PM CDT. PERSONS ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE CHANGING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DORSEY &
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-180100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 555 PM MDT (655 PM CDT) THU JUN 17 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DECREASE OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 550 PM MDT..A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF SCOTT CITY...OTHERWISE MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION OVER THE REGION IS NOW SHOWERS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AND MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL..GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AS THEY WANDER ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS AND INTO SOUTHERN NEBRASKA. LOW LYING FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR IN THE AREA OF THE STRONGER STORMS. DORSEY &
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:52 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-180200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 653 PM MDT (753 PM CDT) THU JUN 17 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE OVER FAR WEST CENTERAL KANSAS... AT 645 PM MDT..THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WEST CENTERAL KANSAS IN GREELEY KANSAS SINCE 6 PM MDT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED IN TRIBUNE..ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND BETWEEN 6 AND 630 PM MDT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AND PERSONS IN NORTHERN GREELEY COUNTY AND WALLACE COUNTY CAN EXPECTED THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ELSEWHERE..MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS WAS FALLING FROM SHOWERS AND NOT THUNDERSTORMS..ALTHOUGH A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED SMALL STORMS WERE NOTED FROM EASTERN LOGAN COUNTY..40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO LANE COUNTY..25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCOTT CITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DORSEY &
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:56 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-180200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 653 PM MDT (753 PM CDT) THU JUN 17 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE OVER FAR WEST CENTERAL KANSAS... AT 645 PM MDT..THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WEST CENTERAL KANSAS IN GREELEY COUNTY SINCE 6 PM MDT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED IN TRIBUNE..ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND BETWEEN 6 AND 630 PM MDT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AND PERSONS IN NORTHERN GREELEY COUNTY AND WALLACE COUNTY CAN EXPECTED THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ELSEWHERE..MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS WAS FALLING FROM SHOWERS AND NOT THUNDERSTORMS..ALTHOUGH A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED SMALL STORMS WERE NOTED FROM EASTERN LOGAN COUNTY..40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO LANE COUNTY..25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCOTT CITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DORSEY
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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.