Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 12, 1991, 9:37 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 1991, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1991, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 130237 FFWDDC KSC151-130545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 937 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...PRATT COUNTY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PRATT COUNTY THIS EVENING. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT BETWEEN 3 1/2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN SOME AREAS OF THE COUNTY. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE EVENING IN THE TOWN OF PRATT AND OVER MUCH OF THE COUNTY...AND WILL CONTINUE THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL MOVES ACROSS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE.
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, Apr 12, 4:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
KSZ006-009-130100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 435 PM CDT THU APR 11 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 435 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF PRATT...BETWEEN SUN CITY AND MEDICINE LODGE. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR OR WEST OF MEDICINE LODGE BY 500 PM. IT WILL CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. AS OF 430 PM...NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED IN SOUTH CENTRAL OR SOUTHWEST KANSAS. CONDITIONS ARE BECOMING MORE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP...ALONG WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR BARBER... COMANCHE...KIOWA...PRATT...EDWARDS...STAFFORD...AND PAWNEE COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES IN THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TV...RADIO...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS THIS EVENING. LETRO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 41 min |
| Apr 12, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 57 min |
| Apr 12, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 43 min |
| Apr 12, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 54 min |
| Apr 12, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 56 min |
| Apr 12, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 60 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.