Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2000, 9:28 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 19, 2000, 9:28 PM MDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2000, 11:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGLD 200328 FFWGLD COC125-200530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 928 PM MDT WED JUL 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1130 PM MDT * AT 928 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ECKLEY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF YUMA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...YUMA...WRAY... WAUNETA...VERNON...LAIRD...HEARTSTRONG...ECKLEY...CLARKVILLE AND ALVIN. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR AT NIGHT. BE EXPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT SINCE IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN AND AROUND STREAMS...CREEKS...OR DRAINAGE DITCHES. TAKE THE SHORTEST PATH TO REACH HIGHER GROUND...BUT DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER. $$t VPAPOL LAT...LON 4043 10277 3987 10279 3990 10206 4042 10205
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 67 min |
| Jul 19, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 55 min |
| Jul 19, 9:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 9:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 39 min |
| Jul 19, 10:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 60 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.