Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 1991, 6:40 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1991, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1991, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morton County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 242340 FFWDDC KSC129-250045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 640 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHERN MORTON COUNTY AT 640 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 85 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...15 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF ELKHART IN MORTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH ELKHART BY AROUND 700 PM. THE STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS WHICH WOULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING ACROSS SOUTHERN MORTON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY ON COUNTY ROADWAYS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, May 24, 1:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-241915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 119 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1991 .... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN FAR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS .... .... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS .... AT 1250 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN FAR SOUTHWESTERN KAN SALONG THE COLORADO BORDER IN STANTON AND HAMILTON COUNTIES...OR 65 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOHNSON IN STANTON COUNTY...OR 30 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE JOHSON AND SYRACUSE AREAS BY 1245 PM MDT (145 PM CDT). A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICAL HAS REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WITH THESE STORMS NEAR MANTER...OR 30 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WHICH CAN PRODUCE FALASH FLOODING ALONG STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILTIY OF THREATENING WEATHER TODAY AND THROUGH THE NIGHT AND PLAN ACCORDINGLY. MVT
Special weather statement, May 24, 2:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-242045-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
249 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1991
.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 383 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL TO 25 MILES EAST OF
SCOTT CITY ....
.... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONGIHT ....
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS AT 240 PM CDT
(140 PM MDT). THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED IN KEARNEY COUNTY
ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF KENDALL OR 40 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY. THIS
LINE CONTINUED TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE
LAKIN AND DEERFIELD AREAS BY 300 PM CDT (200 PM MDT).
PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP WHICH
CAN PRODCUE LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS TODAY AND
TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING OVER AN INCH OF
RAIN OVER SATURATED SOIL...WHICH COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN LOW LYING
AREAS.
PEOPLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
THREATENING WEATHER TODAY AND TONIGHT...AND SnHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
STAY TUNE TO YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION...OR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
MVTSpecial weather statement, May 24, 3:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-242145-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
343 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1991
.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 383 IS IN EFFECT WEST OF A NORTH SOUTH
LINE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL TO 25 MILES EAST OF SCOTT
CITY....
.... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ....
AT 340 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO MORTON
COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ELKHART...OR 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES... IN THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
AND WILL BE IN THE ELKHART AND WILBURTON AREAS BY 445 PM CDT.
REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS FROM
THESE THUNDERSTOMS MAY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING ALONG STREETS AND LOW
LYING AREAS.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
THREATENING WEATHER...AND SHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY. STAY TUNE TO YOUR
LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION....OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
MVTSpecial weather statement, May 24, 3:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
KSZ003-006-009-242145-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO TIME IN 1ST PARAGRAPH...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
350 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1991
.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 383 IS IN EFFECT WEST OF A NORTH SOUTH
LINE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL TO 25 MILES EAST OF SCOTT
CITY....
.... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ....
AT 340 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO MORTON
COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ELKHART...OR 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ULYSSES... IN THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
AND WILL BE IN THE ELKHART AND WILBURTON AREAS BY 350 PM CDT.
REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS FROM
THESE THUNDERSTOMS MAY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING ALONG STREETS AND LOW
LYING AREAS.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
THREATENING WEATHER...AND SHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY. STAY TUNE TO YOUR
LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION....OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
MVTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 42 min |
| May 23, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 63 min |
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 63 min |
| May 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 48 min |
| May 23, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| May 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 31 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton, Stevens | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 57 min |
| May 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 65 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.