Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 1986, 9:50 PM CDT for Edwards County, Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1986, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1986, 1:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 1492 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
AT 445 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1986
THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDELY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES WEST OF JETMORE TO 20 SOUTHWEST
OF GARDEN CITY TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES. MOVING EAST 15 MPH.
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM DODGE CITY TO SOUTH OF ASHLAND AND
OTHER DEVELOPEMENT TO THE EAST OF DODGE CITY TO PRATT. MOVEMENT
EAST 15 MPH.
NO SEVERE WEATHER IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT 4.45PM
GREGG
"Special weather statement, Aug 13, 7:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 717 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE EXTENDIPNG FROM JETMORE TO GARDEN CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR ULYSSES IN GRANT COUNTY OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.