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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

August 9, 1998Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 1998, 3:38 AM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 9, 1998, 3:38 AM MDT (09:38 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 1998, 6:30 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1998-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 105 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1998-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Local storm report, Aug 8, 9:50 PM MDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
950 PM MDT SAT AUG 8 1998

...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT FOR AUGUST 8 1998..

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0550 PM    DEER TRAIL                CO   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/08/98   ARAPAHOE

0835 PM    15 N STONEHAM             CO   1.50 INCH HAIL
08/08/98   WELD

0835 PM    PEETZ                     CO   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/08/98   LOGAN

0850 PM    6 S BENNETT               CO   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/08/98   ARAPAHOE                       MEASURED BY SPOTTER
                                          MICROBURST

GIMMESTAD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 6:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOUMorgan85 min
Aug 8, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUMorgan50 min
Aug 8, 7:12 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOUMorgan93 min
Aug 8, 8:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe31 min
Aug 9, 3:35 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOULincoln3 hr
Aug 9, 3:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUDouglas43 min
Aug 9, 3:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUDouglas, Elbert43 min
Aug 9, 3:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert52 min
Aug 9, 3:48 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams27 min
Aug 9, 3:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld48 min
Aug 9, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington44 min
Aug 9, 4:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOUAdams, Morgan117 min
Aug 9, 4:43 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Morgan, Weld32 min
Aug 9, 4:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOUWashington86 min
Aug 9, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln, Washington38 min
Aug 9, 5:21 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOULincoln, Washington99 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.