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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 10, 1997Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 1997, 10:19 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
Jul 10, 1997, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1997, 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 03:19 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, 3.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1417 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 110319
FFWDDC
KSC119-110620-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1019 PM CDT THU JUL 10 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 120 AM CDT
 
* SOME STREAMS AFFECTED
   SMALL TRIBUTARIES OF CROOKED CREEK

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
  THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE OVER NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES
OF RAIN HAD FALLEN FROM JUST NORTH OF MEADE NORTHEAST TO FOWLER.
AT 1003 PM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER OVER THE
ROADWAY ON ROUTE 160 5 MILES EAST OF MEADE AND ON HIGHWAY 98 2
MILES WEST OF FOWLER.

DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOO&DED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.

CICCONE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford24 min
Jul 11, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards51 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.