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Areal Flood Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 24, 2014Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this areal flood warning at Jun 24, 2014, 6:45 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2014, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2014, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 24, 6:36 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 6:36 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 5:19 AM CDT, 13 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
519 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-251000-
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-
519 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014 /419 AM MDT TUE JUN 24 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 283. THE GREATEST THREATS FROM SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL AS LARGE AS TENNIS BALLS AND DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO
LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE WEDNESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST SATURDAY
EVENING, MAINLY UP ALONG THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED PARTICULARLY ALONG AND WEST
OF THE HIGHWAY 283 CORRIDOR AFTER 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND THROUGH
THE EVENING HOURS.

&&

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

UMSCHEID

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 4:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
437 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014

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

0416 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 E GARDEN CITY         37.98N 100.77W
06/24/2014  M68 MPH          FINNEY             KS   ASOS

&&

06

Local storm report, Jun 24, 4:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 5:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 6:01 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:03 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 6:37 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	40 min
Jun 24, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane, Ness	49 min
Jun 24, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	40 min
Jun 24, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	45 min
Jun 24, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	47 min
Jun 24, 2:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Scott	3 hr
Jun 24, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	44 min
Jun 24, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	39 min
Jun 24, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	46 min
Jun 24, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	41 min
Jun 24, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	49 min
Jun 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	3 hr
Jun 24, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	52 min
Jun 24, 3:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pratt	3 hr
Jun 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Kearny	62 min
Jun 24, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	56 min
Jun 24, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	31 min
Jun 24, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	57 min
Jun 24, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	59 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.