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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2000, 3:47 PM CDT for Stanton 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2000, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KDDC 092049
FFWDDC
KSC187-092345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
347 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 337 PM CDT(237 PM MDT) DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RADAR
RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 3 INCHES SINCE 245 PM CDT OVER NORTHEAST
STANTON COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS CONTINUE IN
THIS AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS...DITCHES...GULLEYS...DRAWS...ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3772 10185 3758 10171 3757 10153 3772 10154
3774 10165
JOHNSON
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 45 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.