Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
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 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 56 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.