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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 14, 1993Edwards County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1993, 6:27 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1993, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Edwards County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 53 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 142330
FFWDDC
KSC047-150230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
627 PM CDT WED JUL 14 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING  EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN EDWARDS COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM CDT...OFFICIALS IN EDWARDS COUNTY REPORT THAT THE RATTLESNAKE
CREEK IN SOUTHEAST EDWARDS COUNTY CONTINUED TO SHOW RISES AND WAS NOW
OVER 5 MILES WIDE IN PLACES. WATER CONTINUES TO GO OVER THE HAGWOOD
BRIDGE.
 
...THE FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST EDWARDS COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED
UNTIL 930 PM CDT...
 
THE RATE OF RISE OF THE CREEK HAD DECREASED AND IT SHOULD FINALLY BEGIN
TO RECEDE BY DARK TONIGHT.
 
IF YOU LIVE OR HAVE AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS ALONG THE RATTLESNAKE CREEK
NEAR TROUSDALE AND FELLSBURG...THE WORST SHOULD BE NEARLY OVER.  THE
GREATEST DANGER AT THIS POINT IS FOR DRIVERS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS AREA
ROADS.
 
HIGHWAY 19 IS CLOSED ACROSS SOUTHEAST EDWARDS COUNTY AND OFFICIALS HAVE
PLACED ROAD BLOCKS.  MANY DIRT ROADS AND COUNTY ROADS IN THE SOUTHEAST
PART OF THE COUNTY REMAIN BLOCKED BY RUNNING WATER.  YOU SHOULD NOT
ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL IN THIS AREA.  STAY HOME AND WAIT FOR THE WATERS TO
RECEDE.
 
MOST FLOODING 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...bEVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.
 
JOHNSON
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 8:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFinney, Gray116 min
Jul 13, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord27 min
Jul 13, 9:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord119 min
Jul 13, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord30 min
Jul 13, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney55 min
Jul 13, 10:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCGray3 hr
Jul 13, 11:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord3 hr
Jul 13, 11:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCKiowa2 hr
Jul 14, 3:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCKiowa3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.