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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

May 26, 2019Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2019, 6:52 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 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
May 26, 2019, 6:52 PM MDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2019, 7:38 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 7:36 PM MDTHEAVY RAIN 1Burlington, COREPORT VIA FACEBOOK.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2019-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2019-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -191 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

548 
WGUS53 KGLD 270052
FFWGLD
COC063-270245-
/O.NEW.KGLD.FF.W.0013.190527T0052Z-190527T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
652 PM MDT Sun May 26 2019

The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Eastern Kit Carson County in east central Colorado...

* Until 845 PM MDT.

* At 652 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 and Bethune. 

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 70 in Colorado between mile markers 428 and 448.
 Highway 385 between mile markers 177 and 203.

LAT...LON 3951 10208 3914 10206 3914 10249 3953 10241

$$

JN
1 follow-up statement
603 
WGUS73 KGLD 270138
FFSGLD

Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
738 PM MDT Sun May 26 2019

COC063-270148-
/O.CAN.KGLD.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-190527T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Kit Carson CO-
738 PM MDT Sun May 26 2019

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed any remaining road closures.

LAT...LON 3951 10208 3914 10206 3914 10249 3953 10241

$$

JN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson46 min
May 26, 6:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne22 min
May 26, 6:24 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne20 min
May 26, 6:28 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson32 min
May 26, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma46 min
May 26, 7:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma28 min
May 27, 5:56 AM MDTDense Fog AdvisoryGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma3 hr
May 27, 4:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma42 min
May 27, 5:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma41 min
May 27, 5:30 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma45 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.