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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 27, 1998Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1998, 6:45 PM CDT for Gray 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, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1998, 9:40 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gray County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 1998-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1299 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1998-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 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
1299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1381 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 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 272346
FFWDDC
KSC069-280240-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 940 PM CDT

* AT 630 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS
  OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST GRAY COUNTY.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING
  SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.

* GRAY COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT WATER WAS
  RUNNING OVER HIGHWAY 23 ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION
  OF HIGHWAY 23 AND 56 AND THEY WERE BARRICADING THE HIGHWAY.

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

GERARD/VMCAVOY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray51 min
Aug 26, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego33 min
Aug 27, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee34 min
Aug 27, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee51 min
Aug 27, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade50 min
Aug 27, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards50 min
Aug 27, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee50 min
Aug 27, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards30 min
Aug 27, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush47 min
Aug 27, 5:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee3 hr
Aug 27, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman49 min
Aug 27, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards48 min
Aug 27, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis47 min
Aug 27, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray46 min
Aug 27, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman47 min
Aug 27, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade48 min
Aug 27, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis50 min
Aug 27, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray36 min
Aug 27, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord49 min
Aug 27, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman47 min

Nearby

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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.