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Flood Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 18, 2006, 3:38 AM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 18, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2006, 3:38 AM CDT (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 18, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2006, 3:53 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Aug 18, 3:37 AM CDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 3:37 AM CDT, 1 minute before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 435 AM CDT THU AUG 17 2006 KSZ030-031-043>046-063>066-075>079-084>088-181000- TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD- GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 435 AM CDT THU AUG 17 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 WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH AND PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER 4 PM. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. THESE HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING...PRIMARILY IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN RAINFALL AMOUNTS. KSZ061-062-074-080-081-089-090-181000- HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-KIOWA-PRATT-COMANCHE-BARBER- 435 AM CDT THU AUG 17 2006 /335 AM MDT THU AUG 17 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. THESE HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING...PRIMARILY IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 17, 11:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness, Rush | 65 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.