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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2000Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2000, 6:12 PM CDT for Kiowa 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: Jun 13, 2000, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 68 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -372 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1214 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 132318
FFWDDC
KSC097-140215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
612 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 539 PM CDT(439 PM MDT) DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 
  GENERAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS 
  IN EXCESS OF 4 INCHES HAD FALLEN BETWEEN 415 AND 615 PM. LAW 
  ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER FLOWING OVER TERRACES 2 MILES 
  SOUTH OF HAVILAND.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  HAVILAND
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY

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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.

LAT...LON 3776 9902 3740 9904 3739 9950 3770 9919

BURGERT/01

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	41 min
Jun 13, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	24 min
Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	45 min
Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	50 min
Jun 13, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	55 min
Jun 13, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	46 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	31 min
Jun 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	63 min
Jun 13, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	54 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.