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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2015Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2015, 8:23 PM CDT for Stanton 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 13, 2015, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2015, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 2015-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 208 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2015-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 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.

436 
WGUS53 KDDC 140123
FFWDDC
KSC187-140415-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0012.150614T0123Z-150614T0415Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
823 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
    
* AT 822 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS OCURING TO 
  COUNTY ROADS IN THE WARNED AREA.  

* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL
  STANTON COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS.

&&

LAT...LON 3774 10189 3774 10169 3760 10178 3762 10192

$$

RUSSELL

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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.