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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1992, 9:56 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1992, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1821 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 280259 FFWDDC KSC033-097-280500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 956 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...COMANCHE COUNTY...KIOWA COUNTY AT 955 PM CDT...HEAVY RAINS AND SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS IN COMMANCHE AND KIOWA COUNTIES HAS PROMPTED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING. RADAR RAIN FALL ESTIMATES HAVE INDICATED THAT MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN KIOWA AND COMMANCHE COUNTIES SINCE 830 PM CDT. MINOR STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN THE TOWN OF GREENSBURG...45 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY...HAS BEEN REPORTED AT 952 PM CDT. ANOTHER ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAINS ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE COUNTIES. PERSONS IN KIOWA AND COMMANCHE COUNTIES SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY ACTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS WATER-COVERED ROADWAYS. THE WATER DEPTH AND CURRENT MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 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 SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE... ON FOOT. VAN TRESS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Finney | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Seward | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Clark | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Gray | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Meade | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade, Seward | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Comanche | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Pawnee | 6 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.