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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2014, 8:16 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2014, 8:16 PM MDT (02:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2014, 11:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 9:30 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 9 Nne Coolidge, KS | WATER WAS FLOWING OVER ROAD G IN PLACES SOUTH OF ROAD 8. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
021
WGUS53 KDDC 270216
FFWDDC
KSC075-270515-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0025.140827T0216Z-140827T0515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
816 PM MDT TUE AUG 26 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1115 PM MDT
* AT 814 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3826 10204 3826 10183 3803 10193 3803 10204
$$
GERARD1 follow-up statement
025 WGUS73 KDDC 270413 FFSDDC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1013 PM MDT TUE AUG 26 2014 KSC075-270423- /O.CAN.KDDC.FF.W.0025.000000T0000Z-140827T0515Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ HAMILTON KS- 1013 PM MDT TUE AUG 26 2014 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. LAT...LON 3826 10204 3826 10183 3803 10193 3803 10204 $$ GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 3:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 3:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 56 min |
| Aug 27, 4:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 4:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 53 min |
| Aug 27, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 24 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.