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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 2001Finney County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2001, 4:55 PM CDT for Finney County, Kearny 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: May 29, 2001, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Finney County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 441 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 292155
FFWDDC
KSC055-093-300100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
455 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FINNEY COUNTY IN KANSAS
  KEARNY COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 455 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  LAKIN
  HOLCOMB
  GARDEN CITY
  DEERFIELD
  HIGHWAY 50 AND 56 BETWEEN GARDEN CITY AND KENDALL 

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 3823 10039 3806 10048 3784 10150 3819 10150

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	59 min
May 29, 4:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	46 min
May 29, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	67 min
May 29, 5:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	66 min
May 29, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	53 min
May 29, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	46 min
May 29, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	27 min
May 29, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	26 min
May 29, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	46 min
May 29, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	44 min
May 29, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	52 min
May 29, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	60 min
May 29, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	30 min
May 29, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	52 min
May 29, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	42 min
May 29, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	49 min
May 29, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	45 min
May 29, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	43 min
May 29, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	41 min
May 29, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	46 min
May 29, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	47 min
May 29, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	47 min
May 29, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	39 min
May 29, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	55 min
May 29, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	55 min
May 29, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	55 min
May 29, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	17 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.