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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1997, 6:04 PM CDT for Clark 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
- May 29, 1997, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 292305 FFWDDC KSC025-300200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 604 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1997 * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * CAUSE AND EFFECT HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES DURING THE LAST 2 HOURS HAS FALLEN IN NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY AROUND MINNEOLA. AT 5:50 PM CDT...A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED HIGHWAY 94 1 MILE SOUTH OF KINGSDOWN HAS WATER FLOWING OVER THE HIGHWAY. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! SLOAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 46 min |
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 35 min |
| May 29, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 min |
| May 29, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| May 29, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 61 min |
| May 29, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 49 min |
| May 29, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 min |
| May 29, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 33 min |
| May 29, 4:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 2 hr |
| May 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 113 min |
| May 29, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 48 min |
| May 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| May 29, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 63 min |
| May 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 48 min |
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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.