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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 9, 2006, 4:12 AM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 9, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2006, 4:12 AM CDT (09:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 9, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2006, 3:09 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 314 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 9, 3:50 AM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:50 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 5:00 AM CDT, 23 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 500 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 2006 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-091000- TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 500 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 2006 /400 AM MDT SAT JUL 8 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE THIS MORNING WILL BE EAST OF A LINE FROM DODGE CITY TO WAKEENEY...AND THIS EVENING ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY... WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT. FINCH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 11:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 52 min |
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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.