Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1993, 6:52 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1993, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1993, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 132355 FFWDDC KSC047-140200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 652 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY AT 648 PM CDT...TORRENTIAL THUNDERSTORM RAINS NORTHWEST OF KINSELY WERE PRODUCING FLOODING OF COUNTY ROADS AND AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRNETIAL RAINS NEAR PETER AND PAUL CHURCH AND AROUND THE KINSLEY AREA. THE STORM WAS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LARNED ALONG HIGHWAY 56. THE STORM WAS MOVING ONLY SLIGHTLY TO THE EAST AT LESS THAN 5 MILES AN HOUR AND MORE FLOODING OF AREA STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE DITCHES IS EXPECTED. WATER WILL SOON COVER ROADS IN MANY AREAS OF NORTHWEST EDWARDS COUNTY. SOME LOCAL FLOODING OF STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS IS LIKELY IN THE KINSLEY CITY LIMITS AS WELL. YOU SHOULD MOVE NOW TO A PLACE OS SAFETY IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA SUCH AS SOUTH KINSLEY ALONG COON CREEK. 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 13, 5:52 PM CDT, 1 hour before
KSZ006-140000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 552 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY BEWTEEN KINSLEY AND BURDETT... AT 550 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF KINSELY...25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF LARNED OVER THE EDWARDS COUNTY PANHANDLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING VERY LITTLE AND CONTINUED TO INDICATE TREMENDOUS DOWNPOURS OVER NORTHWEST EDWARDS COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST PAWNEE COUNTY. FLOODING OF COUNTY ROADS AND EVEN SOME WASHOUTS ON DIRT ROADS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ADDITIONALLY...DEADLY LIGHTNING CONTINUED WITH THE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE AREA COVERED BY THIS STORM YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:53 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
KSZ006-140000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 552 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY BEWTEEN KINSLEY AND BURDETT... AT 550 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF KINSELY...25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF LARNED OVER THE EDWARDS COUNTY PANHANDLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING VERY LITTLE AND CONTINUED TO INDICATE TREMENDOUS DOWNPOURS OVER NORTHWEST EDWARDS COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST PAWNEE COUNTY. FLOODING OF COUNTY ROADS AND EVEN SOME WASHOUTS ON DIRT ROADS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ADDITIONALLY...DEADLY LIGHTNING CONTINUED WITH THE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE AREA COVERED BY THIS STORM YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:06 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
KSZ006-140015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 606 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLDWATER... AT 604 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBURG. THE STORM WAS OVER OPEN FARMLAND IN NORTHWEST COMANCHE COUNTY. IT WAS DRIFTING NORTH AT ONLY AROUND 5 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL STILL BE IN THE OPEN IN NORTHWEST COMANCHE COUNTY BY 700 PM CDT. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LOCAL FLOODING OF COUNTY AND DIRT ROADS IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STORM. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:07 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
KSZ006-140015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 606 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLDWATER... AT 604 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBURG. THE STORM WAS OVER OPEN FARMLAND IN NORTHWEST COMANCHE COUNTY. IT WAS DRIFTING NORTH AT ONLY AROUND 5 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL STILL BE IN THE OPEN IN NORTHWEST COMANCHE COUNTY BY 700 PM CDT. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LOCAL FLOODING OF COUNTY AND DIRT ROADS IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STORM. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:33 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
KSZ006-140030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 633 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO RAGE OVER PARTS OF MEADE COUNTY... AT 632 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEADE...35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 60 10 MILES EAST OF MEADE AT 645 PM CDT. NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED BY A SPOTTER 8 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE AT 626 PM CDT. THE STORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW FROM THE STORM. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR MEADE COUNTY... JOHNSON &
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:34 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
KSZ006-140030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 633 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO RAGE OVER PARTS OF MEADE COUNTY... AT 632 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEADE...35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 60 10 MILES EAST OF MEADE AT 645 PM CDT. NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED BY A SPOTTER 8 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE AT 626 PM CDT. THE STORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW FROM THE STORM. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINED I8N EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR MEADE COUNTY... JOHNSON &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 6:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Comanche | 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.