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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 1, 1995Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 1995, 6:46 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1995, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1995, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny40 min
Jul 1, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton44 min
Jul 1, 6:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant54 min
Jul 1, 7:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton31 min
Jul 1, 7:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant47 min
Jul 2, 4:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens53 min
Jul 2, 4:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant39 min
Jul 2, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens58 min
Jul 2, 5:17 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCStevens43 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.