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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2000, 6:02 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 4 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 20, 2000, 6:02 PM MDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 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 00:06 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, 0.0 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
- 1128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGLD 210002 FFWGLD COC125-210400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 602 PM MDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1000 PM MDT * AT 602 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER WRAY...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF WRAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...YUMA...WRAY... WAUNETA...VERNON...LAIRD...KIRK...JOES...IDALIA...HEARTSTRONG... HALE...ECKLEY...CLARKVILLE...BONNY RESERVOIR...BEECHER ISLAND... ALVIN AND ABARR. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. KNOW YOUR LOCATION IN RELATION TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS THAT CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER. DO NOT CROSS AREAS WHERE WATER IS FLOWING...EVEN ON FOOT. RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY SWEEP YOU OFF YOUR FEET. $$ VPAPOL LAT...LON 4043 10206 4042 10278 3958 10280 3958 10205
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 min |
| Jul 21, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Jul 21, 5:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 38 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.