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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 29, 2014Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2014, 7:16 AM CDT for Trego 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2014, 7:16 AM CDT (12:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2014, 10:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:16 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 2014-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2435 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 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
2435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

480 
WGUS53 KDDC 291216
FFWDDC
KSC195-291515-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0016.140629T1216Z-140629T1515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
716 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TREGO CENTER...CEDAR BLUFF...

* UNTIL 1015 AM CDT

* AT 711 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. PUBLIC
  REPORTS ALSO INDICATE AROUND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER 
  WESTERN TREGO COUNTY. 

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

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3903 10014 3896 9973 3870 9961 3870 10015

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 3:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCNess73 min
Jun 29, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego60 min
Jun 29, 6:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Scott60 min
Jun 29, 7:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCTrego53 min
Jun 29, 7:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCNess60 min
Jun 29, 7:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCStafford38 min
Jun 29, 7:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCLane, Ness3 hr
Jun 29, 7:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness39 min
Jun 29, 8:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPawnee42 min
Jun 29, 9:49 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDDCTrego49 hr

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.