Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 1994, 5:56 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 1994, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 212305 RRA FFWDDC KSC007-220200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 556 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY AT 555 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS 16 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE AND 8 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ONLY 3 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR INDICATES THE STORMS HAVE DUMPED OVER AN INCH OF WATER ON THE GROUND IN THE LAST HALF AN HOUR. THEY WILL REMAIN WHERE THEY ARE UNTIL 600 PM CDT. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY ALONG AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS LEADING INTO THE MEDICINE RIVER. THOSE IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE ACTION NOW TO ESCAPE DAMAGE FROM FLASH FLOODING. THOSE ALREADY AWAY FROM CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS FROM THE HAIL...WIND AND LIGHTNING. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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
Local storm report, Apr 21, 11:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1155 AM CDT THU APR 21 1994
...REPORTS FOR THU APRIL 21 1994...
TIME(CDT) LOCATION EVENT
------------------------------------------------------------------------
153 AM GARDEN CITY, FINNEY CO 61 MPH RECORDED AT GCK AP FCWOS
430 AM 6 SSE MONTEZUMA, GRAY CO 30 X 50 STRUCTURE BLOWN AWAY FROM
TIME APPROX. FOUNDATION INTO ANOTHER( STRUCTURE
BY STRAIGHT LINE WIND. REPORTED
BY PUBLIC.
RICKSSpecial weather statement, Apr 21, 4:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
KSZ061-062-063-064-065-066-074-075-076-077-078-079-080-081-084- 085-086-087-088-089-090-212230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 433 PM CDT (333 PM MDT) THU APR 21 1994 ...A THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NEAR KIOWA. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE SOUTH OF BARBER COUNTY... AT 425 PM CDT...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA BORDER INTO THE VICINITY OF KIOWA...IN SOUTHEAST BARBER COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA. THESE WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST WHILE OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF WOODWARD AND GAGE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...PARTICULARLY SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 50. THE MAIN THREAT THIS EVENING WILL BE POTENTIALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS GENERATED FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY AS THEY BEGIN TO DISSIPATE. SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO FALL FROM A FEW OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THIS EVENING'S DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. RICKS
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 5:35 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
KSC007-212330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 534 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY... AT 530 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A PAIR OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY. THEY WERE 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE AND 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 5 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE OVER OPEN FARMLAND UNTIL 6 PM CDT. THESE STORMS ARE ALREADY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND CAN PRODUCE STRONG...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS WELL AS SOME SMALL HAIL. THE VERY HEAVY RAIN THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING WILL COLLECT RAPIDLY ACROSS A RELATIVELY SMALL AREA OF SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY. SOME MINOR FLOODING ALONG COUNTY ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS IS POSSIBLE. YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HIGH WATER PROBLEMS FROM THESE STORMS. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 46 min |
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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.