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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 TRESSSpecial 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 30 min |
| Jul 17, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 45 min |
| Jul 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 52 min |
| Jul 17, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 50 min |
| Jul 17, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 42 min |
| Jul 17, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 42 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.