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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 2000Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 2000, 9:10 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2000, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 2000-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2642 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 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
2642 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
19.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 240211
FFWDDC
KSC195-240600-

FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
910 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

...FLOOD WARNING FOR TREGO COUNTY UNTIL 100 AM CDT...

RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS MOST OF TREGO COUNTY. HOWEVER...STANDING
WATER AND FLOODING OF DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS IS STILL A
POSSIBILITY. THE TREGO COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED 6 TO 12
INCHES OVER THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 122 AND 283 AT 900 PM CDT.

NEVER TRY TO WALK OR DRIVE ACROSS ROADS WHICH ARE FLOODED.

THIS FLOOD WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS FLASH FLOOD WARNING.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION CAN BE
FOUND AT OUR WEB SITE:  HTTP://WWW.DODGECITY.NET/NWS/

SLEIGHTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego60 min
Jun 23, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens51 min
Jun 23, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess61 min
Jun 23, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush59 min
Jun 23, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego48 min
Jun 23, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane35 min
Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess, Rush58 min
Jun 23, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane39 min
Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCNess, Rush4 hr
Jun 23, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney56 min
Jun 23, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Rush63 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness44 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman44 min
Jun 23, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman46 min
Jun 23, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee47 min
Jun 23, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord44 min
Jun 23, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa38 min
Jun 23, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray49 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.