Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 1993, 9:40 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1993, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1993, 12:45 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 02:41 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 00:00Z, 2.7 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
- 3600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 16.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 020245 COR FFWDDC KSC051-020545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING....CORRECTION FOR EXPIRATION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 940 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...ELLIS COUNTY AT 940 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS IN ELLIS COUNTY...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF I-70. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN FROM 13 MILES NORTH OF HAYS TO NEAR WALKER. AN OBSERVER 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS REPORTED OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY FALL THROUGH MIDNIGHT IN THESE SAME AREAS. PERSONS LIVING NEAR CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS NORTH AND EAST OF HAYS. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN ARE UNTIL MIDNIGHT. BE ESP$ECIALLY 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. HUTTON &
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 1, 6:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
KSZ002-005-006-008-020030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 630 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PART OF THE AREA... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED AND IS VALID UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR TREGO...ELLIS...SCOTT...LANE...NESS AND RUSH COUNTIES. TOWNS INCLUDED IN IN THE WATCH ARE SCOTT CITY...DIGHTON...NESS CITY...WAKEENEY...HAYS AND LA CROSSE. THE TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. AT 628 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING OUT OF ELLIS COUNTY BY 645 PM. HOWEVER...OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST SOUTH OF HAYS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 7:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
KSZ002-005-006-008-020130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 726 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR NESS CITY... AT 724 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF NESS CITY. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...MAYBE SOME SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD CONTINUE IN THE NESS CITY AREA THROUGH 745 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SCOTT...LANE...NESS...TREGO... ELLIS AND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT IN THE MENTIONED COUNTIES...SOME OF WHICH COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE TORNADOES. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 7:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
KSZ002-005-006-008-020130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 726 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR NESS CITY... AT 724 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF NESS CITY. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...MAYBE SOME SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD CONTINUE IN THE NESS CITY AREA THROUGH 745 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SCOTT...LANE...NESS...TREGO...ELLIAND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT IN THE MENTIONED COUNTIES...SOME OF WHICH COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE TORNADOES. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 7:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
KSZ002-005-006-008-020130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 726 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR NESS CITY... AT 724 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF NESS CITY. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...MAYBE SOME SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD CONTINUE IN THE NESS CITY AREA THROUGH 745 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SCOTT...LANE...NESS...TREGO... ELLIS AND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT IN THE MENTIONED COUNTIES...SOME OF WHICH COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE TORNADOES. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:43 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
KSZ002-005-006-008-020245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 843 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NORTHWEST AND NORTH OF HAYS... AT 840 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYS TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS. VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. PERSONS ALONG HIGHWAY 183 NORTH OF HAYS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 910 PM...AND POSSIBLY INTO NORTHERN HAYS BY 9 PM. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS NEAR NESS CITY MOVING EAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL. IT SHOULD BE NEAR BAZINE BY 9 PM. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR SCOTT...LANE...NESS...TREGO...ELLIS AND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
KSZ002-005-006-008-020245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 843 PM CDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NORTHWEST AND NORTH OF HAYS... AT 840 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYS TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS. VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. PERSONS ALONG HIGHWAY 183 NORTH OF HAYS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 910 PM...AND POSSIBLY INTO NORTHERN HAYS BY 9 PM. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS NEAR NESS CITY MOVING EAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL. IT SHOULD BE NEAR BAZINE BY 9 PM. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR SCOTT...LANE...NESS...TREGO...ELLIS AND RUSH COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 33 min |
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.