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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2000, 10:18 PM CDT for Kiowa County, 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 25, 2000, 10:18 PM CDT (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2000, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 2723 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KDDC 260320
FFWDDC
KSC097-151-260615-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1018 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 115 AM CDT
* AT 1014 PM CDT(914 PM MDT) DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS CONFIRMED TORRENTIAL RAINS IN NORTHERN
KIOWA COUNTY AND NORTHERN PRATT COUNTY. THE RAINS WERE SPREADING
SOUTH ACROSS BOTH COUNTIES.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
WELLSFORD
SAWYER
PRESTON
PRATT
MULLINVILLE
IUKA
GREENSBURG
BYERS
BELVEDIRE
HAVILAND
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 3781 9846 3747 9846 3746 9900 3738 9954
3773 9956 3773 9901
JOHNSON/
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 7:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Stafford | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 35 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.