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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2015, 7:29 PM CDT for Meade County, Seward 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
- Jul 17, 2015, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2015, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1843 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
364
WGUS53 KDDC 180029
FFWDDC
KSC119-175-180330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0015.150718T0029Z-150718T0330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
729 PM CDT FRI JUL 17 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
SOUTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* AT 727 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL IN EXCESS
OF THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AS ESTIMATED BY DOPPLER RADAR.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
MEADE STATE PARK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3700 10075 3725 10065 3718 10037 3700 10027
$$
RUSSELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 37 min |
| Jul 17, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 38 min |
| Jul 17, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 42 min |
| Jul 17, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 16 min |
| Jul 17, 10:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 9 hr |
| Jul 17, 10:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 9 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 59 min |
| Jul 18, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 19 min |
| Jul 18, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 41 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.