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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 17, 2001Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 17, 2001, 7:20 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 2001, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ellis County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 2001-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 732 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175194214233253Sfc1 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
732 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
106 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 180024
FFWDDC
KSC051-180615-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 720 PM CDT A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED THAT OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN
  HAD FALLEN IN SOUTHWEST ELLIS COUNTY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE    
  EXPECTED LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. FLOODING OF               
  STREAMS, LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADS CAN BE EXPECTED. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  YOCEMENTO,
  WALKER,
  VICTORIA,
  TOULON,
  MUNJOR,
  HAYS,

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 9905 3872 9905 3872 9954 3910 9954
          3911 9940

FINCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee67 min
Sep 17, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott54 min
Sep 17, 7:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCPawnee6 hr
Sep 17, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens43 min
Sep 17, 8:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCTrego4 hr
Sep 17, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee24 min
Sep 17, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward43 min
Sep 17, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford58 min
Sep 17, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche44 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every 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.