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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 9, 2000Stanton County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 76 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 2000-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton47 min
Aug 9, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton46 min
Aug 9, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny52 min
Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton56 min
Aug 9, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton48 min
Aug 9, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny41 min
Aug 9, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman45 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.