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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 1996, 10:24 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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
- Aug 23, 1996, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1996, 1:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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 03:27 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, 3.4 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
- 1547 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 23, 3:36 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 3:36 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FOR CCF NUMBERS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 326 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 1996 ...MAIN FCST PROBLEM TNGT IS HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL AND FLOODING... BAROCLINIC ZONE SETTING UP OVER S TIER WITH SLOW MOVING STRONG TSRA DVLP RAPIDLY...ALREADY AROUND 2 INCHES IN N BARBER CNTY ATTM. LOW LVL CONVERG/WEAK CAP/AND VERY WEAK WINDS ALOFT ALL POINT TO POSSIBLE FLOODING POTENTIAL. WILL NEED FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM PRATT TO P28 AND ELKHART TO MEADE AND COLDWATER. VERY LOW FF GUIDANCE IN PLACE AND SATURATED GROUND FROM LAST NIGHTS RAIN POINT TO FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN BARBER COUNTY. WILL GO WITH 20-30 PCT NORTH FROM SYRACUSE TO DODGE AND ST JOHN FOR SCATTERED VARIETY AND NO POPS NORTH TIER. TMRW...ANOTHER SHRTWV IN NW FLOW COULD SET OF MORE TSRA IN FAR WEST AND ALONG CONVERG ZONE ALONG LEE TROF...OTHERWISE PARTLY CLOUDY. ...LONG TERM... SHRTWV TO CONT INTO REST OF CWA TMRW NIGHT AND HAVE ADDED SMALL POPS MOST AREAS FOR THIS...WITH CONT OF MOIST FLOW FROM DOLLY REMNANTS. N TO NWERLY FLOW CONT THROUGH THE REST OF THE PERIOD WITH NO GREAT WARMUP EXPECTED. SHRTWVS WILL CONT TO BRING THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HIGH THETA-E AIR IN PLACE. NEXT BEST CHANCE OF HEAVY RAINFALL SHOULD BE SUNDAY EVE/NIGHT WITH COLD FRONT. HAVE GONE CLOSE TO FWC GUID FOR TEMPS TNGT AND TMRW AND LOWERED SLIGHTLY FOR SUNDAY WITH MORE CLOUDS. DDC 064/084 065/085 213 GCK 063/084 064/085 213 EHA 064/085 065/088 633 LBL 065/085 065/086 633 HYS 063/083 065/082 -13 P28 066/088 068/089 613 KRUSE
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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.