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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 24, 2014Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2014, 2:10 PM CDT for Scott 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 24, 2014, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Scott County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

289 
WGUS53 KDDC 241910
FFWDDC
KSC171-242215-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0008.140624T1910Z-140624T2215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
210 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SCOTT STATE LAKE...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 203 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* 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 3869 10094 3870 10070 3856 10070 3856 10095

$$

JJOHNSON

1 follow-up statement

364 
WGUS73 KDDC 242214
FFSDDC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
514 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014

KSC171-242223-
/O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-140624T2215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SCOTT KS-
514 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN
SCOTT COUNTY...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVE SOUTH OUT OF THE WARNED AREA, AND NO OTHER 
HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TONIGHT.

LAT...LON 3869 10094 3870 10070 3856 10070 3856 10095

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	40 min
Jun 24, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane, Ness	49 min
Jun 24, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	40 min
Jun 24, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	45 min
Jun 24, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	47 min
Jun 24, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hodgeman	44 min
Jun 24, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	39 min
Jun 24, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	46 min
Jun 24, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	41 min
Jun 24, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	49 min
Jun 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	3 hr
Jun 24, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	52 min
Jun 24, 3:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pratt	3 hr
Jun 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Kearny	62 min
Jun 24, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	56 min
Jun 24, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	31 min
Jun 24, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	57 min
Jun 24, 6:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Gray	4 hr
Jun 24, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.