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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 26, 1996Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1996, 12:32 AM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1996, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1996, 4:25 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 260534 COR
FFWDDC
KSC129-260925-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR FLOODING LOCATION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1232 AM CDT WED JUN 26 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 425 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

   ...MORTON COUNTY
 
AT 1225 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TORRENTIAL RAIN CONTINUED IN
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF MORTON COUNTY.  RADAR
ESTIMATED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL ALONG THE CIMARRON RIVER
AS WELL AS THE NORTH FORK RIVER.

AT 1215 AM...REPORTS FROM MORTON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT INDICATED
A FEW COUNTY ROADS IN THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE COUNTY HAD WATER
COVERING THEM.  SPECIFICALLY...THE ROADS COVERED WITH WATER WERE 9
MILES NORTH OF ELKHART.

MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER MORTON COUNTY
OVER THE SAME AREAS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.  THIS ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE THE FLOODING SITUATION WORSE IN MORTON
COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL ROADS WILL BECOME FLOODED THROUGH THE NIGHTTIME
HOURS.

DON/T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!
 
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR AT NIGH0T...USUALLY IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

SEARCY/KRUSE

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 25, 3:47 PM CDT, 8 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:47 PM CDT, 8 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
330 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996

FCST PBLM CONTS TO BE CNVCTN THRU FCST PD.

IN SHORT TERM...MONSOONAL MSTR CONTS TO WRAP ARND UPR HI OVER LWR
MISSOURI VALLEY AND WL CONT TO FEED DEEP MSTR WWRD THRU HI PLNS RGN.
DDC RAOB THIS AM NOT REPRESENTATIVE WITH LO LVL MSTR AND XPCT THETAE
RDG TO RETROGRADE WWRD THRU THE AFTN. ETA MDL IMAGES ON GARP AGREE
WITH >360K THETAE RDG OVR W KS TNGT.  MNWHL...SAT IMAGES HV VORT MOVG
N OUT OF XTRM E NM TO ARRIVE THIS EVE IN PNHNDLS. THIS FEATURE BEST
HANDLED BY NGM. WITH THIS COMBO AND CAPES WELL OVR 4000 J/KG ON
MODIFIED AND PROG SOUNDINGS WL JUMP POPS TNGT TO LIKELY. PCBL H20
OVR 150 PCNT OF NORMAL. RICKS METHOD HAS LCL AMNTS AT 8 INCHES IN
ISOLD STORMS SO WL ALSO GO FFW ACRS MUCH OF AREA FOR OVRNGT PD.

IN LONGER TERM...FCST PRBLM CONTS TO BE TIMING OF S/W'S IN SSWRLY UPPER
LEVEL FLOW.  RIDGE AXIS CONTS TO BE NRLY STNRY FROM NRN PLNS INTO SRN MS
VALLEY THRU 48 HRS.  ALL THREE MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH
THIS EXCEPT FOR SOME MINOR DIFFS IN STRENGTH OF FEATURES.  MODELS HINT
AT ANOTHER S/W COMING UP FM SRN PLNS WED EVE/NGT. WILL WORD FCST POPS
ACRDNGLY.  MODELS KEEP SWRN KS IN FAVORABLE AREA ON BACKSIDE OF UPPER
LEVEL RIDGE FOR CONTD MOIST ADVCTN FROM TROPICS.  THIS SHOULD KEEP POSS
OF TRW AROUND CLEAR THRU XTNDED PD AND THNK XTNDED FORECAST SHOULD
REFLECT THIS.  NOT VERY GOOD DRYING CONDS FOR HARVEST OPNS.

FWC/FAN TMP FCSTS ARE IN REASONABLY GOOD AGREEMENT AND CLOSE TO
PERSISTENCE.  WILL GENRLLY FOLLOW XCPT WILL KNOCK OFF A COUPLE DEG FOR
TNGTS LOWS IN RAIN COOLED AIR.
.SW KS...FFA TNGT KSZ061>065-074>080-084>089

DDC 061/090 064/090 063 613
GCK 062/091 063/091 062 613
EHA 062/091 063/091 062 613
LBL 063/092 065/092 063 613
HYS 063/089 064/089 063 613
P28 067/094 069/094 068 713

GERARD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 9:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  DODGE CITY KS
945 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0715 PM    1 E TREGO CENTER          KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96   TREGO                          60 MPH WIND GUST

0715 PM    2 SE TREGO CENTER         KS   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/25/96   TREGO

0746 PM    15 NNW LIBERAL            KS   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/25/96   SEWARD

0752 PM    5 E TREGO CENTER          KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96   TREGO

0805 PM    4 SE TREGO CENTER         KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96   TREGO

0810 PM    2 SE TREGO CENTER         KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/96   TRE"GO

PARKIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	47 min
Jun 25, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	34 min
Jun 25, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	31 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	49 min
Jun 25, 8:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	3 hr
Jun 25, 8:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Seward	3 hr
Jun 25, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	50 min
Jun 26, 1:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.