Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2007
Flood Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 43 min |
| Mar 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 45 min |
| Mar 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt | 44 min |
| Mar 23, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 21 min |
| Mar 23, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 39 min |
Nearby
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.