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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 28, 2003Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2003, 9:56 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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 28, 2003, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 2003-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2306 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 2003-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 290300
FFWDDC
KSC175-290700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
956 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 956 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 3
  TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY OVER
  PAST FEW HOURS. MANY STREETS IN DOWNTOWN LIBERAL HAVE BEEN REPORTED 
  COVERED IN 2 TO 3 FEET OF WATER.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  HAYNE,
  LIBERAL,

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ALONG
FLOOD PRONE STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...HIGHWAYS AND ALONG OTHER
DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

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 3735 10068 3702 10067 3702 10106 3736 10104

$$

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade46 min
Jun 28, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward61 min
Jun 28, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess48 min
Jun 28, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward61 min
Jun 28, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego54 min
Jun 28, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens57 min
Jun 28, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego39 min
Jun 29, 1:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCSeward4 hr

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.