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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Goodland, KS

July 8, 2016Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2016, 12:16 AM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. 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: Jul 8, 2016, 12:16 AM MDT (06:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2016, 4:15 AM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:18 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 (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

846 
WGUS53 KGLD 080616
FFWGLD
COC063-081015-
/O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0033.160708T0616Z-160708T1015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1216 AM MDT FRI JUL 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 415 AM MDT

* AT 1213 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1 TO 2
  INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE PAST HOUR. IN
  ADDITION...EXTREME RAINFALL RATES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED WITH TRAINED
  WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTING A HALF INCH OF RAIN OCCURRING IN 8
  MINUTES. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN KIT
  CARSON COUNTY.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS... 
HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 190 AND 206...AND NEAR MILE MARKER 211.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3956 10315 3957 10205 3931 10205 3939 10316

$$

JRM

1 follow-up statement

280 
WGUS73 KGLD 081009
FFSGLD

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
409 AM MDT FRI JUL 8 2016

COC063-081019-
/O.EXP.KGLD.FF.W.0033.000000T0000Z-160708T1015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
KIT CARSON CO-
409 AM MDT FRI JUL 8 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 415 AM MDT...

FLOOD WATERS HAVE RECEDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.

LAT...LON 3956 10315 3957 10205 3931 10205 3939 10316

$$

DR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 7:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	13 min
Jul 7, 7:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	24 min
Jul 7, 10:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	20 min
Jul 7, 11:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	15 min
Jul 7, 11:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	26 min
Jul 7, 11:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	45 min
Jul 7, 11:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	19 min
Jul 7, 11:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	41 min
Jul 8, 12:05 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	25 min
Jul 8, 12:26 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	49 min
Jul 8, 12:37 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	38 min
Jul 8, 12:58 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	47 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.