Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1995, 6:36 AM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1995, 6:36 AM CDT (11:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1995, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1028 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 23, 2:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 247 AM CDT THU JUN 22 1995 MAIN PROBLEM IS POPS FOR TODAY/TONIGHT. SFC ANAL PLACES COLD FRONT FROM NORTHWEST KANSAS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO. PROGS SUGGEST THIS FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS DDC/S CWA AND SOUTHEAST OF P28 BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. H5 HAND ANAL SHOWS A SHORT WAVE OVER NORTHERN NEW MEXICO WHICH SHOULD MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING. EXPECT TRW CURRENTLY OVER SW KANSAS TO MOVE EAST OF DDC/S CWA BY DAWN TODAY AND THE NEXT SHOT OF TRW/RW TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE AFOREMENTIONED SHORT WAVE AND VORT MAX. WITH INCREASED CLOUDINESS TODAY...EXPECT TEMPS TO BE COOLER THAN YESTERDAY. BELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 37 min |
| Jun 22, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 8:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Kearny | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 67 min |
| Jun 22, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Meade | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 5:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Meade | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 54 min |
| Jun 23, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 15 min |
| Jun 23, 7:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 52 min |
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.