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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2014, 4:12 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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
- Jun 9, 2014, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2014, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Ellis County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Nw Catherine, KS | WATER WAS OBSERVED COVERING SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS UP TO 100 YARDS WIDE IN A FEW LOCATIONS. |
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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
760 WGUS53 KDDC 092112 FFWDDC KSC051-100300- /O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0004.140609T2112Z-140610T0300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 412 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WALKER...VICTORIA...TOULON... EMMERAM...CATHARINE... * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 403 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM PERSISTANT RAIN SHOWERS OVER THE WARNED AREA...INCLUDING PORTIONS OF NORTH FORK OF BIG CREEK IN EASTERN ELLIS COUNTY. * THE PERSISTANT RAIN SHOWERS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF INCH TO ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 3913 9930 3913 9905 3881 9904 3881 9930 $$ JJOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton, Morton, Stanton | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 7:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade, Seward | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 11:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 8 hr |
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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.