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Areal Flood Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this areal flood warning at Jun 6, 2014, 10:36 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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 6, 2014, 10:36 PM CDT (03:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2014, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 464 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
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 6, 6:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 6:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 615 PM CDT Fri Jun 6 2014 ...Updated aviation discussion... .SHORT TERM...(This evening through Saturday) ISSUED AT 1244 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 We are monitoring the short-fuse trends in visible satellite, observations, and radar and are expecting numerous thunderstorms to develop by as early as 1830 or 1900 UTC. There is little capping in the atmosphere this afternoon, so the little bit of insolation we have seen has allowed temperatures to rise to around 80...with ample moisture in place (dewpoints in the lower to mid 60s). 1700 UTC surface analysis revealed a weak surface boundary just south of Dodge City which appears to be the focus for the first storms showing up on radar as of 1745 UTC. These mid to late afternoon thunderstorms will only be the first round of what will appear to be multiple rounds of convection...the last of which being the most organized coming out of eastern Colorado. Widespread 1 to 2 inches of rain can be expected given the moisture-laden lower-mid troposphere. This evening's MCS will most likely clear the southwest Kansas region by 06Z or so early Saturday morning, however additional storms may continue to thrive near the Oklahoma border, so we will maintain chance POPs between Highway 50 and the Oklahoma border through midday Saturday. Saturday's organized MCS activity will likely stay to the south, though. .LONG TERM...(Saturday night through Friday) ISSUED AT 221 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 This weekend the upper jet will sag southward, moving slightly cyclonically through the southern Rockies. To the north, a very weak trough axis/shear zone will move toward the western Plains through the end of the weekend. Easterly upslope surface flow is expected across the area with numerical model solutions supporting convective development over southeast Colorado and northeast New Mexico, implying decent chances for severe convection, or at least periods of decaying MCS' over far southwest Kansas, with lower chances to the northeast Saturday night into early Sunday. The upper trough will intensify across Kansas Sunday night to the point of developing a closed 700 mb low, which is fairly well agreed upon by both the GFS and ECMWF. Strongest 850 mb moisture transport and highest theta-e appears relegated to the Southern Plains region, so the magnitude of any severe threat may be limited to hail storms given a lack of strong CAPE values, unless timing becomes more of an issue and the wave is slower than models forecast, arriving later after a more significant diurnal destabilization. A brief respite will is likely with respect to convective activity as subsident flow develops into Tuesday. After Tuesday, the models hint at another setup conducive to severe local supercell storms and MCS development, especially by late Wednesday and Thursday with the possibility for southeast moist surface flow and upper shortwave energy. An uptick in temperatures is also expected through the middle of the week toward more seasonal or slightly warmer than normal highs in the mid and upper 80s. && .AVIATION...(For the 00Z TAFS through 00Z Saturday evening) ISSUED AT 614 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 Thunderstorms will continue to increase in areal coverage as they move east across western Kansas early tonight. Will use the latest HRRR, ARW, and NMM for timing of the steadier and heavier rainfall at the GCK, DDC, and HYS airport between 00z and 06z. MVFR cigs and IFR visibilities are expected with the heavy rainfall early tonight. A moist easterly upslope flow then will develop after midnight and based on NAM BUFR soundings a period of IFR conditions will be possible between 09z and 15z due to status and fog development. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 63 78 56 71 / 90 50 40 30 GCK 62 76 56 70 / 80 30 40 30 EHA 62 78 55 69 / 90 40 50 30 LBL 63 79 58 72 / 90 50 50 30 HYS 62 77 56 69 / 70 40 20 30 P28 66 81 61 74 / 80 60 50 30 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...Umscheid LONG TERM...Russell AVIATION...Burgert
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 1:53 AM CDT, 20 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 153 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-071200- 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- 153 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 /1253 AM MDT FRI JUN 6 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT EARLY MORNING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83 THIS MORNING. LIGHTNING IS THE MAIN THREAT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE MID MORNING ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN ARE THE MAIN THREATS. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH LATE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. HEAVY RAINFALL LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THERE IS LARGE UNCERTAINTY IN WHERE THE HEAVY PRECIPITATION AXIS WILL FALL GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE SPORADIC THUNDERSTORMS. SECONDARY THREATS ARE OUTFLOW WINDS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS...BUT PROBABLY SMALLER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY BOUTS OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OCCUPY THE REST OF THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OF THE REST OF THE FORECAST OUTLOOK. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...ANY HAIL...OR THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD BE APPRECIATED. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC SUGDEN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 8:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
848 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014
KSZ030-043>045-070230-
LANE-NESS-SCOTT-TREGO-
848 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LANE...SCOTT...WESTERN NESS AND
WESTERN TREGO COUNTIES...
AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF THE
MONUMENT ROCKS TO 9 MILES WEST OF SHALLOW WATER...OR ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE TO 9 MILES WEST
OF SHALLOW WATER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3828 10016 3827 10113 3871 10113 3870 10016
3913 10015 3914 9982 3914 9981
TIME...MOT...LOC 0148Z 266DEG 37KT 3889 10077 3833 10103
WAHLocal storm report, Jun 6, 8:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
852 PM CDT FRI JUN 06 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0836 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 ENE MONTEZUMA 37.62N 100.38W
06/06/2014 GRAY KS EMERGENCY MNGR
APPROXIMATELY 10 POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN AT HIGHWAY 56 AND
17 ROAD.
&&
RBURGSpecial weather statement, Jun 6, 9:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
916 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014
KSZ064>066-078>081-088>090-070300-
BARBER-CLARK-COMANCHE-EDWARDS-FORD-HODGEMAN-KIOWA-PAWNEE-PRATT-
STAFFORD-
916 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BARBER...COMANCHE...EASTERN
CLARK...EASTERN HODGEMAN...EDWARDS...KIOWA...PRATT...SOUTHEASTERN
FORD...SOUTHERN PAWNEE AND STAFFORD COUNTIES...
AT 914 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES SOUTH OF
BURDETT TO KINSLEY TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MULLINVILLE TO 8 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF BUCKLIN TO SITKA TO 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ACRES...MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3744 9962 3765 9951 3813 9959 3827 9889
3826 9847 3739 9846 3738 9834 3699 9835
3700 9980
TIME...MOT...LOC 0216Z 254DEG 39KT 3806 9947 3789 9942
3768 9939 3746 9950 3724 9960 3701 9969
WAHLocal storm report, Jun 6, 9:51 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
951 PM CDT FRI JUN 06 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0930 PM HAIL 4 W WAKEENEY 39.02N 99.96W
06/06/2014 E1.00 INCH TREGO KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
MSCOTTSpecial weather statement, Jun 6, 10:05 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 7:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 7:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade, Seward | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Pawnee | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Meade | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Scott | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Lane, Ness, Rush, Trego | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt and 1 more | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 10:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.