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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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
BURGERTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 30 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.