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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 17, 2001Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 17, 2001, 5:20 PM CDT for Trego 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: Sep 17, 2001, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Trego County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -187 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 172224
FFWDDC
KSC195-180115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
520 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 520 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 1 TO 2 
INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR ACROSS PARTS OF 
WESTERN AND CENTRAL TREGO COUNTY. MORE HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED 
ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN TREGO COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM. 
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO AFFECT ALL OF TREGO 
COUNTY THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  WAKEENEY,
  VODA,
  TREGO CENTER,
  RIGA,
  OGALLAH,
  CEDAR BLUFF,

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.

LAT...LON 3910 10011 3873 10015 3872 9961 3911 9963

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	59 min
Sep 17, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	53 min
Sep 17, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	53 min
Sep 17, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	57 min
Sep 17, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	60 min
Sep 17, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	61 min
Sep 17, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	61 min
Sep 17, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	59 min
Sep 17, 6:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	6 hr
Sep 17, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	53 min
Sep 17, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.