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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1993, 3:11 AM CDT for Hodgeman County, Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1993, 3:11 AM CDT (08:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1993, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hodgeman County, KS, Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1773 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 190815 RRA FFWDDC KSC083-135-191115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 311 AM CDT MON JUL 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN NESS COUNTY AT 311 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADA SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE WHICH CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAINS. THE BAND WAS ALONG THE NESS COUNTY HODGEMAN COUNTY LINE FROM EAST TO WEST AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. INDIVIDUAL STORMS IN THE BAND WERE MOVING DUE EAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE DUMPING OVER HALF AN INCH OF RAIN AN HOUR INTO AN AREA ALREADY SODDEN FROM PREVIOUS RAINS. THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS OF NORTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY AND SOUTHERN NESS COUNTY. ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN NESS COUNTY AND NORTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY UNTIL 615 AM CDT... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT^ STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE. JOHNSON
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, Jul 19, 1:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-190715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED PM TO AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 107 AM CDT MON JUL 19 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION... AT 102 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 FROM THE COLORADO BORDER TO GARDEN CITY...DODGE CITY AND ON TO LARNED AND GREAT BEND. THEY WERE GENERALLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96 FROM SCOTT CITY TO GREAT BEND. THEY WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. STRONGEST STORM WAS 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF SYRACUSE. IT WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WAS LIKELY PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. THE GREATEST CONCERN FROM THE STORMS WAS VERY HEAVY RAINS FALLING ACROSS AN AREA ALREADY SOGGY FROM STORMS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY. LOCAL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE LIKELY TO BE RUNNING HIGH DUE TO THE RAIN AND TOWNS AND CITIES ARE GOING TO SELE SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING WITH THESE STORMS. STAY INDOORS DURING A THUNDERSTORM. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH RUNNING WATER. YOUR VEHICLE CAN EASILY BE SWEPT AWAY...TRAPPING YOU INSIDE. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
KSZ003-190745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED LAST TWO LINES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 202 AM CDT MON JUL 19 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BEARING DOWN ON THE GARDEN CITY AREA... AT 200 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...4 MILES NORTH OF DEERFIELD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH HOLCOMB BY 220 AM CDT AND GARDEN CITY BY 240 AM CDT. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IT IS ALSO LIKELY PRODUCING MARBLE SIZED HAIL. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER AS THE STORM APPROACHES. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE DURING A THUNDERSTORM. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
KSZ003-190745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 202 AM CDT MON JUL 19 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BEARING DOWN ON THE GARDEN CITY AREA... AT 200 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...4 MILES NORTH OF DEERFIELD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH HOLCOMB BY 220 AM CDT AND GARDEN CITY BY 240 AM CDT. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IT IS ALSO LIKELY PRODUCING MARBLE SIZED HAIL. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER AS THE STORAPPROACHES. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE DURING A THUNDERSTORM. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KSZ003-190745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED LAST TWO LINES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 202 AM CDT MON JUL 19 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BEARING DOWN ON THE GARDEN CITY AREA... AT 200 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...4 MILES NORTH OF DEERFIELD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH HOLCOMB BY 220 AM CDT AND GARDEN CITY BY 240 AM CDT. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IT IS ALSO LIKELY PRODUCING MARBLE SIZED HAIL. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER AS THE STORM APPROACHES. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE DURING A THUNDERSTORM. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:21 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-190830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 221 AM CDT MON JUL 19 1993 AT 220 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AROUND 50 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM SCOTT CITY AND GARDEN CITY EAST THROUGH GREAT BEND. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOSTLY NORTH OF GARDEN CITY...DODGE CITY AND KINSLEY AND MOSTLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96 FROM SCOTT CITY TO GREAT BEND. THESE STORMS ARE BRINGING VERY HEAVY RAINS TO TENNIS...FRIEND...KALVESTA ...JETMORE AND NESS CITY. BY 330 AM THESE VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL ALSO EXTEND EAST INTO BURDETTE...ROZEL...HANSTON...BAZINE...RUSH CENTER AND LARNED. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY DEADLY LIGHTNING...THE SINGLE LARGEST KILLER ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE DURING A THUNDERSTORM. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:24 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
KSZ002-003-005-006-008-009-190830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 221 AM CDT MON JUL 19 1993 AT 220 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AROUND 50 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM SCOTT CITY AND GARDEN CITY EAST THROUGH GREAT BEND. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOSTLY NORTH OF GARDEN CITY...DODGE CITY AND KINSLEY AND MOSTLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96 FROM SCOTT CITY TO GREAT BEND. THESE STORMS ARE BRINGING VERY HEAVY RAINS TO TENNIS...FRIEND...KALVESTA ...JETMORE AND NESS CITY. BY 330 AM THESE VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL ALSO EXTEND EAST INTO BURDETTE...ROZEL...HANSTON...BAZINE...RUSH CENTER AND LARNED. REMEMVBER...THUNDERSTORMS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY DEADLY LIGHTNING...THE SINGLE LARGEST KILLER ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE DURING A THUNDERSTORM. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 1:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Lane | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.