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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2007, 9:57 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2007, 9:57 PM CDT (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 10:00 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.74 | Dodge City, KS | 1.72 INCHES OF RAINFALL AS OF 10PM. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL. |
| Aug 23, 11:26 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 5.5 | Dodge City, KS | ON POST STREET SOUTH OF MALL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KDDC 240257 FFWDDC KSC057-240600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 957 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DODGE CITY... * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 954 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER DODGE CITY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3773 10004 3773 9998 3779 9997 3778 10004 $$ RITTERLING
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KDDC 240501 FFSDDC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT - CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1159 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 KSC057-240530- FORD KS- 1159 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL FORD COUNTY... ALTHOUGH WATER IS STILL COVERING SOME ROADWAYS IN THE AREA...THE FLASH FLOODING THREAT HAS ENDED. LAT...LON 3773 10004 3773 9998 3779 9997 3778 10004 $$ RITTERLING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 41 min |
| Aug 23, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 29 min |
| Aug 23, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 52 min |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.