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Flood Watch 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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
&&
06The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 67 min |
| Aug 5, 7:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 8:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 115 min |
| Aug 5, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Stanton | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 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.