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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2003, 4:32 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne 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
- Jun 19, 2003, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2003, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 192237
FFWGLD
COC017-KSC199-200130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
432 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
WESTERN WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 730 PM MDT
* AT 432 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING OVER ARAPAHOE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST
OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...ARAPAHOE AND WESKAN.
A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED THAT ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN FELL
NORTH OF ARAPAHOE IN 8 MINUTES NEAR 4 PM MDT.
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED AT 425 PM MDT THAT THEY HAD JUST
RECEIVED A REPORT OF WATER RUNNING ACROSS HIGHWAY 40 NEAR ARAPAHOE.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION...FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IF
YOU ARE NEAR ARAPAHOE COLORADO OR WESKAN KANSAS...OR LIVE NEAR THOSE
AREAS IN A FLASH FLOOD PRONE AREA...MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO HIGHER
GROUND. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WALK OR DRIVE ACROSS AREAS WHERE WATER IS
FLOWING. THE RAINFALL IN THE AREA WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME RISE THE
SMOKY HILL RIVER AND IN SURROUNDING CREEKS.
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.
PLEASE REPORT ANY FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.
LAT...LON 3868 10233 3871 10187 3909 10187 3904 10209
3903 10234
RJC
$$2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KGLD 200118 FFSGLD COC017-KSC199-200115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 715 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY OF COLORADO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WESTERN WALLACE COUNTY OF KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINS THAT CAUSED THE FLASH FLOODING SITUATION HAVE ENDED AND MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED AT THIS TIME. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ALSO REPORTED THAT THE WATER RUNNING ACROSS HIGHWAY 40 NEAR ARAPAHOE COLORADO EARLIER WAS NO LONGER OCCURRING. HOWEVER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR IN THE AREA AGAIN LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. RJC $$
000 WGUS73 KGLD 200126 CCA FFSGLD COC017-KSC199-200145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 725 PM MDT THU JUN 19 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY OF COLORADO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WESTERN WALLACE COUNTY OF KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINS THAT CAUSED THE FLASH FLOODING SITUATION HAVE ENDED AND MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED AT THIS TIME. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ALSO REPORTED THAT THE WATER RUNNING ACROSS HIGHWAY 40 NEAR ARAPAHOE COLORADO EARLIER WAS NO LONGER OCCURRING. HOWEVER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR IN THE AREA AGAIN LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. $$ RJC
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.