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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 14, 2015Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2015, 7:50 PM CDT for Meade 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 14, 2015, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2015, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 2015-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 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 2015-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

002 
WGUS53 KDDC 150050
FFWDDC
KSC119-150345-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0013.150615T0050Z-150615T0345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
750 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
    
* AT 749 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM 
  PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN IN MEADE, ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH 
  FLOODING IS OCCURRING. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  MEADE AND MISSLER. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

&&

LAT...LON 3737 10027 3722 10027 3719 10042 3718 10049
      3720 10057 3725 10058 3730 10050

$$

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.