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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 8, 1997Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 1997, 10:25 PM CDT for Meade 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: Jul 8, 1997, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1997, 2:25 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Meade County, KS

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.

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: 1818 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Jul 8, 3:16 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:16 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
315 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 1997

...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS CHANCE FOR PRECIP TONIGHT...

SHORT FUSE COMPOSITE SHOWING BEST MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ALONG DEVELOPING
WARM FRONT FROM GARDEN CITY...DODGE CITY AND NORTH AND ALSO TCU ARE
STARTING TO FORM ALONG A WIND SHIFT BOUNDARY PSUEDO-DRYLINE JUST WEST
OF DODGE CITY. CAPES RUNNING ANYWHERE FROM 3000-5000 J/KG...HOWEVER
FAIRLY DECENT CAP OF +3 TO +4 OVER DODGE CITY WITH THE WEAKEST CAP EAST
AND NORTH OF DODGE CITY. CURRENT THINKING IS TO GO WITH THE HIGHEST
POPS MAINLY EAST AND NORTH OF DODGE CITY AS WEAK WARM FRONT SHIFTS
NORTH ALONG WITH CONVERGENCE. WILL CARRY LESSER POPS TOWARD THE
SOUTHWEST AS NUMEROUS AREAS OF CU ARE STARTING TO DEVELOP. WILL GO WITH
AVN/ETA SFC WHICH SHOWS THE BOUNDARY SLOWLY LIFTING NORTH OVERNIGHT.

TOMORROW...AVN WANTS TO KEEP WEAK BOUNDARY OVER THE AREA BUT THINK THIS
BOUNDARY WILL WASH OUT AS STRONGER SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS DEVELOP. WILL
KEEP TEMPS GOING FROM THE 90S ALL AREAS ONCE AGAIN. WILL KEEP A 20 POP
GOING IN THE NORTH WITH SOME WEAK CONVERGENCE UP THERE.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...H5 RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD INTO THE
AREA AND WILL CONTINUE WITH TEMPERATURES INTO THE 90S FOR HIGHS AND IN
THE MID 60S AT NIGHT.

BOTH FAN AND FWC GUIDANCE ARE IN AGREEMENT AND SEE NO REASON TO GO
AGAINST THEM.

.DDC...NONE.

DDC 066/092 066/092 068 312
GCK 063/090 065/090 067 312
EHA 065/0 95 064/096 065 211
LBL 065/094 064/094 065 211
HYS 067/089 066/090 067 422
P28 070/097 070/096 070 412

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 9:59 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	32 min
Jul 8, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	60 min
Jul 8, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	61 min
Jul 8, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	45 min
Jul 8, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	49 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.