Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2002, 8:03 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2002, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 5021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KGLD 120103
FFWGLD
KSC193-120400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
803 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 803 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER COLBY...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...COLBY...GEM...HALFORD
AND MINGO.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3951 10104 3937 10119 3916 10121 3918 10076
3942 10085
RUBINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 43 min |
| Aug 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 39 min |
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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.