Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1999, 11:38 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma 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
- Jun 10, 1999, 11:38 PM MDT (05:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1999, 2:35 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 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 KGLD 110538 FFWGLD COC063-125-110835- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1138 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 235 AM MDT * AT 1135 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER KIT CARSON AND YUMA COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.. * SPOTTERS REPORTED THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAD OCCURRED NEAR THE TOWN OF FLAGLER AND 14 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON. SPOTTERS REPORTED WATER WAS COVERING THE ROADS NEAR THE TOWN OF FLAGLER AND ALONG HIGHWAY 385...14 MILES NORTH OF THE TOWN OF BURLINGTON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT POSSIBLY PRODUCING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH. DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH `FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. VPAPOL
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.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 10, 8:38 PM MDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 8:38 PM MDT, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 836 PM MDT (936 PM CDT) THU JUN 10 1999 UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN CWA UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 AM CDT). ALSO CONTINUED MENTION OF FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ENTIRE CWA THROUGH TONIGHT. LATEST 02Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS STALLED FRONT LYING NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST THROUGH GOODLAND. BEST DYNAMICS PLUS GOOD 25H JET COMING TOGETHER OVER CWA THIS EVENING RESULTING IN GOOD THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MIGRATE EAST AS AN MCS INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF TOMORROW. DID NOT SEE ANY REASON TO CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE TO ZONES AT THIS TIME. .GLD...SEV THUNDERSTORM WATCH COZ090>092 KSZ001-002-003-004-013-014-015-016-027-028-029 NEZ079-080-081 LAMMERS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 10, 10:58 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1058 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1048 PM 2 NE RULETON KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
1049 PM FLAGLER CO 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/99 KIT CARSON
SULLIVANLocal storm report, Jun 10, 10:58 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1058 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1048 PM 2 NE RULETON KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
1049 PM FLAGLER CO 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/99 KIT CARSON
SULLIVANLocal storm report, Jun 10, 11:12 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1112 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1049 PM GOODLAND KS 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
SULLIVANLocal storm report, Jun 10, 11:12 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1112 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1049 PM GOODLAND KS 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
SULLIVANLocal storm report, Jun 10, 11:30 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1130 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 PM GOODLAND KS 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
1110 PM GOODLAND KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
1114 PM GOODLAND KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
SULLIVANLocal storm report, Jun 10, 11:30 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1130 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 PM GOODLAND KS 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
1110 PM GOODLAND KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
1114 PM GOODLAND KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 SHERMAN
SULLIVANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 9:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 114 min |
| Jun 10, 11:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.