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Flood Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 6, 20137 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 6, 2013, 2:47 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 2013, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2013, 10:43 PM CDT
In force
32 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Flood severity
None

Counties Edwards County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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 2013-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 427 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2013-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 172 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-400 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1424 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 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 Aug 6, 2:36 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 2:36 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 4:22 AM CDT, 10 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
422 AM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-071000-
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-
422 AM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 /322 AM MDT TUE AUG 6 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL THEN INCREASE
IN AREAL COVERAGE AS IT MOVES ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL
SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. PERIODS OF HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY
THROUGH MONDAY. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THE BETTER PROBABILITY
FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND POSSIBLY SUNDAY.
THE MAIN HAZARD FROM THESE STORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WILL
BE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN, HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING.

&&

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

BURGERT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 6, 1:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
134 PM CDT TUE AUG 06 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0710 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 ESE JETMORE           38.06N 99.83W
08/05/2013  E60 MPH          HODGEMAN           KS   PUBLIC

&&

06

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Meade44 min
Aug 5, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt40 min
Aug 5, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray67 min
Aug 5, 7:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKiowa60 min
Aug 5, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray50 min
Aug 5, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford63 min
Aug 5, 8:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord115 min
Aug 5, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford47 min
Aug 5, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray45 min
Aug 6, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny54 min
Aug 6, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny45 min
Aug 6, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Stanton48 min
Aug 6, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens47 min
Aug 6, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens46 min
Aug 6, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Stanton42 min
Aug 6, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.