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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Goodland, KS

August 26, 2002Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2002, 6:55 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 2002, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2002, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
4 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), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2002-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2002-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KGLD 262355
FFWGLD
KSC193-270345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
654 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 651 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY        
  RAINFALL MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THOMAS COUNTY AT 25 MPH. HAM
  RADIO SPOTTERS REPORT THAT AT LEAST 12 TO 14 INCHES OF WATER WAS
  MOVING ACROSS SEVERAL STREETS IN COLBY. ALSO SPOTTERS REPORTED THAT
  WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH WAS RUNNING ACROSS HIGHWAY 25 TEN MILES NORTH
  OF COLBY. THIS ROAD MAY BE IMPASSABLE.

* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...COLBY...GEM...
  HALFORD...LEVANT...MINGO AND REXFORD.

MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY OR PAST POLICE BARRICADES.
RAPIDLY RISING WATER CAN ENGULF A VEHICLE AND ITS OCCUPANTS AND SWEEP
THEM AWAY. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS IN THE WATER...ABANDON IT
IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE OF
WEATHER INFORMATION FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS CONCERNING
THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

&&

LAT...LON 3956 10138 3913 10139 3915 10073 3957 10074

BULLER

&

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins57 min
Aug 26, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne47 min
Aug 26, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins61 min
Aug 26, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne59 min
Aug 26, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne39 min
Aug 26, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins50 min
Aug 26, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne60 min
Aug 26, 5:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins4 hr
Aug 26, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman59 min
Aug 26, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas53 min
Aug 26, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace55 min
Aug 26, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas41 min
Aug 26, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan56 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.