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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 19, 2002Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2002, 8:43 PM MDT for Hamilton 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2002, 8:43 PM MDT (02:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2002, 11:45 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 2002-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2329 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 2002-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 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
2329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 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 200243
FFWDDC
KSC075-093-200545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
842 PM MDT WED JUN 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1145 PM MDT(1245 AM CDT)

* AT 842 PM MDT(942 PM CDT) DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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 3809 10112 3775 10111 3774 10201 3807 10204

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott63 min
Jun 19, 7:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny64 min
Jun 19, 8:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton50 min
Jun 19, 9:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton41 min
Jun 19, 9:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Kearny48 min
Jun 20, 2:09 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney51 min
Jun 20, 2:35 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane40 min
Jun 20, 3:01 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney29 min
Jun 20, 7:48 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush42 min
Jun 20, 8:34 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush41 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.