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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 29, 2013Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2013, 4:38 PM CDT for Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 2013, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2013, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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
Jul 29, 4:59 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Preston, KS	SPOTTER REPORTS WATER OVER SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS IN NORTHEAST PRATT COUNTY.

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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

222 
WGUS53 KDDC 292138
FFWDDC
KSC151-185-300045-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0005.130729T2138Z-130730T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
438 PM CDT MON JUL 29 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PRESTON...
  SOUTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEOLA...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 434 PM CDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED FROM A THUNDERSTORM
  OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
NORTH FORK NINNESCAH RIVER...NORTH FORK NINNESCAH DRAINAGE...N FK
NINNESCAH RIVER DRAINAGE...SILVER CREEK...S FK NINNESCAH RIVER
DRAINGAGE AND SILVER CREEK TRIBUTARY.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

&&

LAT...LON 3771 9847 3773 9864 3784 9864 3792 9847
      3791 9847 3783 9847 3782 9846

$$

RUSSELL

2 follow-up statements

830 
WGUS73 KDDC 292254
FFSDDC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
554 PM CDT MON JUL 29 2013

KSC151-185-300045-
/O.CON.KDDC.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-130730T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
STAFFORD KS-PRATT KS-
554 PM CDT MON JUL 29 2013

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN PRATT AND SOUTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTIES...

AT 459 PM CDT... PRATT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED  
WATER OVER SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS ACROSS NORTHEAST PRATT COUNTY. FLASH 
FLOODING CONTINUES OVER THE WARNED AREA.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO NEOLA

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
NORTH FORK NINNESCAH RIVER...NORTH FORK NINNESCAH DRAINAGE...N FK
NINNESCAH RIVER DRAINAGE...SILVER CREEK...S FK NINNESCAH RIVER
DRAINGAGE AND SILVER CREEK TRIBUTARY.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3771 9847 3773 9864 3784 9864 3792 9847
      3791 9847 3783 9847 3782 9846

$$

RUSSELL

068 
WGUS73 KDDC 300049
FFSDDC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
749 PM CDT MON JUL 29 2013

KSC151-185-300056-
/O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-130730T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
STAFFORD KS-PRATT KS-
749 PM CDT MON JUL 29 2013

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR NORTHEASTERN PRATT AND
SOUTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTIES...

ALTHOUGH THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED, AREAL FLOODING WILL 
CONTINUE ACROSS MANY COUNTY ROADS ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST PRATT AND 
SOUTHEAST STAFFORD COUNTIES THROUGH THIS EVENING AND POSSIBLY INTO 
THE OVERNIGHT. AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING WILL REPLACE THE FLASH FLOOD 
WARNING THAT IS NOW EXPIRING.    

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3771 9847 3773 9864 3784 9864 3792 9847
      3791 9847 3783 9847 3782 9846

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stafford	48 min
Jul 29, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	43 min
Jul 29, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	51 min
Jul 29, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	44 min
Jul 29, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	45 min
Jul 29, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	50 min
Jul 29, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Comanche	31 min
Jul 29, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	45 min
Jul 29, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	66 min
Jul 29, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	32 min
Jul 29, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	48 min
Jul 29, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pawnee	44 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.