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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 1997Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1997, 4:48 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 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
May 29, 1997, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1997, 6:50 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 9 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 29, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton46 min
May 29, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray35 min
May 29, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman49 min
May 29, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord45 min
May 29, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant61 min
May 29, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord49 min
May 29, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord46 min
May 29, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton33 min
May 29, 4:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord113 min
May 29, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton48 min
May 29, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord48 min
May 29, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford34 min
May 29, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton46 min
May 29, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark63 min
May 29, 6:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCClark3 hr
May 29, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.