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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 11, 2003Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2003, 5:37 PM MDT for Hamilton 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 11, 2003, 5:37 PM MDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2003, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 172 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 2003-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1226 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
1226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 112338
FFWDDC
KSC075-120230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
537 PM MDT WED JUN 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT

* AT 531 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  ALMOST STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS NEAR COOLIDGE AND 10 MILES NORTH
  OF SYRACUSE

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  COOLIDGE AND VICINITY, AND ALONG HIGHWAY 27 AT 10 MILES NORTH
  OF SYRACUSE

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 3821 10171 3806 10165 3788 10202 3808 10203

$$

KRUSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 4:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton55 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.