Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2002, 8:29 PM MDT for Kit Carson 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2002, 8:29 PM MDT (02:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2002, 11:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGLD 240229 FFWGLD COC063-240530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 826 PM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 1130 PM MDT * AT 826 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING SOUTH THROUGH KIT CARSON COUNTY NEAR AND EAST OF BURLINGTON. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...BETHUNE AND BURLINGTON. THE PUBLIC REPORTED 3 AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN IN A ONE HOUR PERIOD JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF BURLINGTON NEAR 8 PM. SOME ROADS HAVE BEEN FLOODING. 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 3955 10248 3905 10248 3910 10210 3953 10207 RJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 12:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 1:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 7:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 47 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.