Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 1993, 2:17 AM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1993, 2:17 AM CDT (07:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1993, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellis County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 210717 FFWDDC KSC051-211015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 217 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...ELLIS COUNTY AT 210 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT MOST OF ELLIS COUNTY HAS RECEIVED 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS...WITH TWO TO THREE INCHES FALLING IN THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PARTS OF THE COUNTY. THE AIRPORT IN HAYS RECEIVED 1.95 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 100 AND 200 AM THIS MORNING. STREET FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING IN HAYS AND AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE RISING RAPIDLY AND BEGINNING TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. PERSONS LOCATED NEAR DITCHES...CULVERTS...AND STREAMS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. LOWLAND FLOODING IS LIKELY ALONG AND NEAR THE SALINE RIVER IN NORTHERN ELLIS COUNTY AND ALONG BIG CREEK FROM ELLIS TO MUNJOR. 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 COVERSJ THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE... ON FOOT. CRAVEN &
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 20, 11:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ003-005-006-008-210545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1137 PM CDT TUE JUL 20 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 1130 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NESS CITY AREA AND EXTENDING SOUTH TO NEAR JETMORE...20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF OKLAHOMA INTO THE LIBERAL AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY IN NESS CITY AND LIBERAL THROUGH 1230 AM CDT. RENEWED HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN WAKEENEY AND HAYS AFTER 1230 AM CDT. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY AS SATURATED GROUNDS ARE UNABLE TO ABSORB THESE ADDITIONAL RAINS. PERSONS TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 283 NORTH OF DODGE CITY AND IN THE WAKEENEY AND NESS CITY AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT FOR ELLIS AND RUSH COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF PERSISTENT HEAVY RAINS OCCUR OR FLOODING IS OBSERVED. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 11:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
KSZ003-005-006-008-210545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1137 PM CDT TUE JUL 20 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 1130 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NESS CITY AREA AND EXTENDING SOUTH TO NEAR JETMORE...20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF OKLAHOMA INTO THE LIBERAL AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY IN NESS CITY AND LIBERAL THROUGH 1230 AM CDT. RENEWED HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN WAKEENEY AND HAYS AFTER 1230 AM CDT. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY AS SATURATED GROUNDS ARE UNABLE TO ABSORB THESE ADDITIONAL RAINS. PERSONS TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 283 NORTH OF DODGE CITY AND IN THE WAKEENEY AND NESS CITY AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT FOR ELLIS AND RUSH COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF PERSISTENT HEAVY RAINS ZOCCUR OR FLOODING IS OBSERVED. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:17 AM CDT, 1 hour before
KSZ003-006-210715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 117 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEADING THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 110 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A 30 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY TO THE LIBERAL AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD REACH THE GARDEN CITY...CIMARRON...AND MEADE AREAS BY 200 AM CDT. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS BAND. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...REMAIN INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. THESE STORMS SHOULD APPROACH DODGE CITY AFTER 300 AM CDT THIS MORNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:17 AM CDT, 1 hour before
KSZ003-006-210715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 117 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEADING THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS... AT 110 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A 30 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY TO THE LIBERAL AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD REACH THE GARDEN CITY...CIMARRON...AND MEADE AREAS BY 200 AM CDT. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS BAND. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...REMAIN INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. THESE STORMS SHOULD APPROACH DODGE CITY AFTER 300 AM CDT THIS MORNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. CRAVEN
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:52 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
KSZ008-210800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 152 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993 ...A SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR ELLIS AND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM... DOPPLER RADAR AT 148 AM INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MOVING OUT OF THE HAYS AREA...BUT CONTINUING ALONG I-70 INTO THE EASTERN PART OF ELLIS COUNTY. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL IN NORTHEAST RUSH COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAYS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER AMOUNTS WEST OF RUSH CENTER TO NEAR LA CROSSE. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED AT 127 AM IN LA CROSSE WHILE THE HAYS POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS MOST STREETS WERE FLOODED IN THE TOWN OF HAYS AT 137 AM. RAIN WILL BE LETTING UP AT HAYS BEFORE 2 AM BUT WILL CONTINUE HEAVY FROM LORETTA IN RUSH COUNTY...TO THE EASTERN PART OF ELLIS COUNTY. IF YOU ENCOUNTER HIGH WATER ON ROADWAYS...DO NOT CROSS FLOODED AREAS. ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER CROSSING A STREET OR HIGHWAY CAN SWEEP A CAR OR TRUCK INTO THE DITCH. PERSONS THAT LIVE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS NEAR CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. HUTTON &
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:54 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
KSZ008-210800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 152 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993 ...A SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR ELLIS AND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM... DOPPLER RADAR AT 148 AM INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MOVING OUT OF THE HAYS AREA...BUT CONTINUING ALONG I-70 INTO THE EASTERN PART OF ELLIS COUNTY. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL IN NORTHEAST RUSH COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAYS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER AMOUNTS WEST OF RUSH CENTER TO NEAR LA CROSSE. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED AT 127 AM IN LA CROSSE WHILE THE HAYS POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS MOST STREETS WERE FLOODED IN THE TOWN OF HAYS AT 137 AM. RAIN WILL BE LETTING UP AT HAYS BEFORE 2 AM BUT WILL CONTINUE HEAVY FROM LORETTA IN RUSH COUNTY...TO THE EASTERN PART OF ELLIS COUNTY. IF YOU ENCOUNTER HIGH WATER ON ROADWAYS...DO NOT CROSS FLOODED AREAS. ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER CROSSING A STREET OR HIGHWAY CAN SWEEP A CAR OR TRUCK INTO THE DITCH. PERSONS THAT LIVE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS NEAR CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. HUTTON &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 2 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.