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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 27, 1998Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1998, 7:03 PM CDT for Hodgeman 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 27, 1998, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1998, 10:05 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Hodgeman County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 35 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 1998-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 890 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1998-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
890 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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 280004
FFWDDC
KSC083-280305-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
703 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 1005 PM CDT

* AT 700 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY...
  MOVING SLOWLY EAST.

* THUNDERSTORMS TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREAS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY
  INCREASE THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

GERARD/MCAVOY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade46 min
Aug 27, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman50 min
Aug 27, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens48 min
Aug 27, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade50 min
Aug 27, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant48 min
Aug 27, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward, Stevens49 min
Aug 27, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward32 min
Aug 27, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade46 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.