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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 1999Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1999, 2:47 AM CDT for Stevens 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
Jun 10, 1999, 2:47 AM CDT (07:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1999, 5:45 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 1999-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2355 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1999-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
2355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 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 100745
FFWDDC
KSC189-101045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
247 AM CDT THU JUN 10 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 545 AM CDT

* AT 230 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN STEVENS COUNTY. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST~ AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

RADAR HAS ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN OVER CENTRAL STEVENS COUNTY.
*

DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton50 min
Jun 9, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton29 min
Jun 9, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber47 min
Jun 9, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche35 min
Jun 9, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa48 min
Jun 9, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell47 min
Jun 9, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney28 min
Jun 9, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray48 min
Jun 9, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade48 min
Jun 9, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess46 min
Jun 10, 5:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.