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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 11, 2014Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2014, 8:26 PM CDT for Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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 11, 2014, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2014, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Ellis County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 11, 9:30 PM CDTFLASH FLOODEllis, KSEMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTS NUMEROUS STREETS FLOODED FROM CURB TO CURB AS WELL AS OVER COUNTY ROADS IN ELLIS COUNTY.

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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 00:00Z on 2014-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1716 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 00:00Z on 2014-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1716 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

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

931 
WGUS53 KDDC 120126
FFWDDC
KSC051-195-120530-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0005.140612T0126Z-140612T0530Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
826 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...YOCEMENTO...ELLIS...
  EASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...RIGA...OGALLAH...CEDAR BLUFF...

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 818 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A CLUSTER OF STRONG AND SEVERE STORMS
  OVER THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY IN AND NEAR ELLIS.

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

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO INCHES OR MORE ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA AS STORMS CONTINUE TO TRAIN OVER THE ELLIS AREA.

MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE
CITY.

&&

LAT...LON 3912 9976 3912 9931 3882 9938 3875 9982

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis54 min
Jun 11, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego64 min
Jun 11, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott62 min
Jun 11, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness62 min
Jun 11, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego60 min
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness45 min
Jun 11, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Pawnee, Rush51 min
Jun 11, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness40 min
Jun 11, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Ford, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford64 min
Jun 11, 10:13 PM CDTHigh Wind WarningDDCEdwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 9 more5 hr
Jun 11, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt and 1 more62 min
Jun 12, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber35 min
Jun 12, 12:38 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Trego12 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.