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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2000Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2000, 7:04 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2000, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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 2000-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 513 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
513 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
368 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 140009
FFWDDC
KSC151-140300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWEST PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 659 PM CDT(559 PM MDT) DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 3 TO  
  4 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAD OCCURED OVER MOST OF SOUTHWESTERN PRATT   
  COUNTY BETWEEN 5 AND 7 PM.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  COATS
  CROFT

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 3767 9846 3748 9846 3748 9899 3773 9900
          3769 9847

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt42 min
Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa49 min
Jun 13, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark41 min
Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa45 min
Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt43 min
Jun 13, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt42 min
Jun 13, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber30 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.