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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 15, 2016, 4:16 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, 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
- Apr 15, 2016, 4:16 PM MDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2016, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
375
WGUS53 KGLD 152216
FFWGLD
COC017-063-160115-
/O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0002.160415T2216Z-160416T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
416 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
NORTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 715 PM MDT
* AT 416 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BURLINGTON...STRATTON AND BETHUNE.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 70 IN COLORADO BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 416 AND 436.
HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 197 AND 205...AND NEAR MILE MARKER
211.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
&&
LAT...LON 3955 10223 3912 10233 3895 10245 3901 10278
3955 10259
$$
JN1 follow-up statement
454
WGUS73 KGLD 152348
FFSGLD
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
546 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016
COC017-063-160115-
/O.CON.KGLD.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160416T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
KIT CARSON CO-CHEYENNE CO-
546 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR
CENTRAL KIT CARSON AND NORTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN EAST
CENTRAL COLORADO...
AT 546 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE TRAINING FROM
SOUTH SOUTHWEST TO NORTH NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BURLINGTON...STRATTON AND BETHUNE.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 70 IN COLORADO BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 416 AND 436.
HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 197 AND 205...AND NEAR MILE MARKER
211.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
&&
LAT...LON 3955 10223 3912 10233 3895 10245 3901 10278
3955 10259
$$
TLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 3:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 17 min |
| Apr 15, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 4:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| Apr 15, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 19 min |
| Apr 15, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 5:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 26 min |
| Apr 15, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 5:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 17 min |
| Apr 15, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 50 min |
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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.