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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2000, 11:55 PM CDT for Pratt 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 20, 2000, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2000, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 54.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KDDC 210458 FFWDDC KSZ081-210730- FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1155 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR PRATT COUNTY UNTIL 230 AM CDT... AT 1150 PM CD4T SPOTTERS REPORTED WATER OVER THE ROAD IN IUKA AND SEVERAL STREETS FLOODING IN PRATT. AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NNNN 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 20 min |
| Jul 20, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 49 min |
| Jul 21, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.