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Flood Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 23, 20076 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flood watch at Mar 23, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 24, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 24, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 24, 2007, 1:33 PM CDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Flood severity
None

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 2007-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2007-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Mar 23, 3:37 AM CDT, 11 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 3:37 AM CDT, 11 hours 53 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 23, 5:00 AM CDT, 10 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
500 AM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-241000-
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 FRI MAR 23 2007 /400 AM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND INCREASE
IN AREAL COVERAGE TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY MORNING.
SOME CLEARING CAN BE EXPECTED EARLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS
WILL PROBABLY NOT BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS WILL PROBABLY NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade43 min
Mar 23, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche45 min
Mar 23, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade42 min
Mar 23, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa48 min
Mar 23, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade35 min
Mar 23, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward48 min
Mar 23, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pratt44 min
Mar 23, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford33 min
Mar 23, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord34 min
Mar 23, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward21 min
Mar 23, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa39 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in Kansas, 2007Every flood watch in 2007

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.