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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 18, 1993Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 1993, 1:40 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1993, 1:40 PM CDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1993, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1993-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 160 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -94 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Jul 18, 8:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
800 AM CDT sun JUL 18 1993

PRELIMINARY REPORTS FROM EVENING OF JUL 17 1993

TIME CDT         LOCATION               EVENT
________________________________________________________________

620 PM           5W LAKIN               DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                 KEARNY CO.             BY COUNTY SPOTTERS.

650 PM           WILBURTON              HALF DOLLOR SIZED HAIL REPORTED
                 MORTON CO.             BY COUNTY SPOTTERS.

VAN TRESS
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 11:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-182200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS
1117 AM CDT SUN JUL 18 1993

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS:

BARBER      FINNEY      HASKELL       MEADE      RUSH       STEVENS
CLARK       FORD        HODGEMAN      MORTON     SCOTT      TREGO
COMANCHE    GRANT       KEARNY        NESS       SEWARD
EDWARDS     GRAY        KIOWA         PAWNEE     STAFFORD
ELLIS       HAMILTON    LANE          PRATT      STANTON

SYNOPSIS: A FRONTAL SYSTEM ACROSS THE KANSAS OKLAHOMA BORDER
IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW
OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AFTER 5 PM....ESPECIALLY WEST OF A
GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL LINE. SPOTTER ACTIVIATION MAY BE NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 11:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-182200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KANSAS
1117 AM CDT SUN JUL 18 1993

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS:

BARBER      FINNEY      HASKELL       MEADE      RUSH       STEVENS
CLARK       FORD        HODGEMAN      MORTON     SCOTT      TREGO
COMANCHE    GRANT       KEARNY        NESS       SEWARD
EDWARDS     GRAY        KIOWA         PAWNEE     STAFFORD
ELLIS       HAMILTON    LANE          PRATT      STANTON

SYNOPSIS: A FRONTAL SYSTEM ACROSS THE KANSAS OKLAHOMA BORDER
IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTER2NOON AND EVENING. A FEW
OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AFTER 5 PM....ESPECIALLY WEST OF A
GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL LINE. SPOTTER ACTIVIATION MAY BE NEEDED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton30 min
Jul 17, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman45 min
Jul 17, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess52 min
Jul 17, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman50 min
Jul 17, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman42 min
Jul 17, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess42 min

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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.