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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 16, 2001Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2001, 6:36 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 114 min. 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 16, 2001, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 358 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 439 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-484 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
439 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
462 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 162344
FFWDDC
KSC033-170130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
636 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 636 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A CLUSTER OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS 
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.  DOPPLER RADAR 
  ESTIMATES THAT MORE THAN 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
  OCCURRED DURING THE PAST HOUR.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL 
  IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR, AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE 
  FLASH FLOODING.    


* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  PROTECTION
  LAKE COLDWATER
  COLDWATER
  BUTTERMILK

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS...DITCHES...GULLEYS...DRAWS...ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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 3725 9955 3700 9953 3700 9901 3738 99<01
          3738 9954

BERRY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark32 min
Jun 16, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark37 min
Jun 16, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche47 min
Jun 16, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark44 min
Jun 16, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford27 min
Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche45 min
Jun 16, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.