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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 9, 2014Ellis County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 9, 6:00 PM CDTFLASH FLOOD4 Nw Catherine, KSWATER 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2014-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton, Morton, Stanton54 min
Jun 8, 7:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens62 min
Jun 8, 9:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade, Seward52 min
Jun 8, 11:13 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny8 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.