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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 25, 2000Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2723 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 2000-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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/

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess24 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush49 min
Jun 25, 7:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCNess, Rush3 hr
Jun 25, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess30 min
Jun 25, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward41 min
Jun 25, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens44 min
Jun 25, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess18 min
Jun 25, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens46 min
Jun 25, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman43 min
Jun 25, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray, Haskell51 min
Jun 25, 9:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Stafford3 hr
Jun 25, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman47 min
Jun 25, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber35 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.