Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 17, 1992, 6:43 PM CST for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 1992, 6:43 PM CST (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1992, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 533 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 180044 FFWDDC KSC007-033-180345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 643 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN BARBER COUNTY...EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY THUNDESTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE THROUGH EASTERN COMANCHE AND WESTERN BARBER COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN IN THE AREA BETWEEN 8 AND 15 MILES EAST OF COLDWATER. ADDITIONAL RAINS ARE LIKELY IN THIS AREA. FLOODING OF ROADWAYS...PARTICULARLY HIGHWAY 160...IS LIKELY AND STREAMS IN THE AREA WILL BE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES... DIPS... OR LOW SP`OTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE... ON FOOT. HUTTON
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, Mar 17, 2:14 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
KSZ009-172100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS 205 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS. IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...THE COUNTIES OF BARBER AND PRATT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH. AS OF 2 PM CST...NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS. HOWEVER AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AND MAY MOVE INTO BARBER OR PRATT COUNTIES. IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THE COUNTIES OF BARBER AND PRATT...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. IF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP...YOU SHOULD BE PREP=ARED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS OR IN A BASEMENT. ALSO...YOU SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MB
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 2:55 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ006-009-172200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 254 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 ...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA... AT 251 PM...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...OR 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT, KS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH/NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST COMANCHE COUNTY BEFORE 315 PM. ALTHOUGH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NOT IN EFFECT FOR COMANCHE COUNTY...THIS STORM IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS. IF YOU LIVE SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...BE PREPARED FOR VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING HAIL AND HIGH WIND. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 4:02 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
KSZ003-009-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 401 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDESTORM IN COMANCHE COUNTY... AT 358 PM...A VERY STRONG AND RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...OR 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE OVER OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY AND CROSSING INTO BARBER COUNTY JUST NORTH OF ANETA BEFORE 415 PM. HAIL...HIGH WIND IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 8 PM. THREATENNING WEATHER IS POSSIBLE SO BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 5:23 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
KSZ006-009-180030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 522 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY NEAR PRATT... AT 522 PM...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY JUST SOUTH OF PRATT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH PRATT BEFORE 545 PM. HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 6:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pratt | 3 hr |
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.