Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2012, 3:44 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 82 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2012, 3:44 PM MDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2012, 5:06 PM MDT
- In force
- 82 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:58 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.14 | Burlington, CO | MEASURED DURING THE PAST HOUR. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
110 WGUS53 KGLD 042144 FFWGLD COC063-050030- /O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0002.120604T2144Z-120605T0030Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 344 PM MDT MON JUN 4 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 630 PM MDT * AT 342 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. SPOTTERS REPORTED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.50 INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR...WITH HEAVY RAINFALL IN PROGRESS. THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM WILL DROP VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE BURLINGTON AREA...INCLUDING INTERSTATE 70. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... BETHUNE AND BURLINGTON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. && LAT...LON 3939 10213 3913 10212 3914 10248 3939 10247 $$ 024
1 follow-up statement
437 WGUS73 KGLD 042306 FFSGLD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 506 PM MDT MON JUN 4 2012 COC063-042321- /O.CAN.KGLD.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120605T0030Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ KIT CARSON CO- 506 PM MDT MON JUN 4 2012 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA AND NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF FLOODING WAS OBSERVED PLEASE RELAY YOUR REPORT TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND. && LAT...LON 3939 10213 3913 10212 3914 10248 3939 10247 $$ 024
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 20 min |
| Jun 3, 6:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Phillips | 17 min |
| Jun 3, 7:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 15 min |
| Jun 3, 7:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Phillips | 17 min |
| Jun 3, 7:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 15 min |
| Jun 3, 7:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 16 min |
| Jun 4, 1:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 2:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 3:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 30 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.