Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 1993, 5:26 AM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1993, 5:26 AM CDT (10:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1993, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 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 10:25 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, 10.4 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 211030 COR FFWDDC KSC051-211230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED TO ADD EXTENDED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 526 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...ELLIS COUNTY ...THIS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING... AT 521 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS ELLIS COUNTY...EXTENDING SOUTH TO 20 MILES WEST OF LARNED. THE AREA WAS MOVING NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES FELL ACROSS A LARGE PART OF ELLIS COUNTY SINCE MIDNIGHT. THE CURRENT RAINS WILL ADD ANOTHER 1/2 TO 1 INCH TO THE TOTALS SO FLASH FLOODING IS STILL LIKELY. PERSONS ALONG SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...IN LOW LYING AREAS OR IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. IN ADDITION...SOME STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY IN HAYS THROUGH 7 AM. AT 515 AM...BIG CREEK AT MUNJOR...SOUTHEAST OF HAYS...HAD REACHED 22 FT AND WAS STILL RISING. FLOOD STAGE IS 18 FEET. THE WATER SHOULD CONTINUE TO RISE AND MAY REACH 25 FEET THIS MORNING. PERSONS IN AND AROUND MUNJOR SHOULD PROTECT THEMSELVES BY MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND. BIG CREEK AT ELLIS...YOCEMENTO AND HAYS SHOULD STAY BELOW FLOOD STAGE BUT SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE RAPID RISES SHOULD HEAVY RAIN FALL. HOWEVER...HEAVY RAIN FELL ON THE SALINE RIVER IN NORTHERN ELLIS COUNTY SO PERSONS SHOULD EXPECT FLOODING IN THAT AREA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUIC(KLY. 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 21, 1:17 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes 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, 4 hours 9 minutes 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, 3 hours 34 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, 3 hours 32 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, 3:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
KSZ005-008-210915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 318 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEADED FOR ALREADY SATURATED GROUND... AT 314 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NESS CITY AREA...BUT ALSO EXTENDING SOUTHEAST TO NEAR KINSLEY. THE RAIN AREA WAS MOVING NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE AROUND 1/2 INCH BUT ISOLATED SPOTS MAY GET AN INCH OF RAIN THROUGH 430 AM. PERSONS IN NESS...TREGO AND RUSH COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ADDITIONAL RAIN AND POSSIBLE RAPID RISES ON ALREADY RAIN SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS. IF YOUR DRIVING THROUGH THE AREA...BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR WATER OVER THE ROAD. ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT CROSSING STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CAN SWEEP A CAR OR TRUCK INTO THE DITCH. THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR RUSH COUNTY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST 330 AM. TO TOP IT OFF...ADDITIONAL RAINS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. THIS RAIN WAS ALSO MOVING NORTH. HUTTON
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 3:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
KSZ005-008-210915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 318 AM CDT WED JUL 21 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEADED FOR ALREADY SATURATED GROUND... AT 314 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NESS CITY AREA...BUT ALSO EXTENDING SOUTHEAST TO NEAR KINSLEY. THE RAIN AREA WAS MOVING NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE AROUND 1/2 INCH BUT ISOLATED SPOTS MAY GET AN INCH OF RAIN THROUGH 430 AM. PERSONS IN NESS...TREGO AND RUSH COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ADDITIONAL RAIN AND POSSIBLE RAPID RISES ON ALREADY RAIN SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS. IF YOUR DRIVING THROUGH THE AREA...BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR WATER OVER THE ROAD. ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT CROSSING STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CAN SWEEP A CAR OR TRUCK INTO THE DITCH. THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR RUSH COUNTY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST 3|30 AM. TO TOP IT OFF...ADDITIONAL RAINS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. THIS RAIN WAS ALSO MOVING NORTH. HUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 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.