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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2015, 7:33 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Rush 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, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 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 Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 98 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.
564
WGUS53 KDDC 180033
FFWDDC
KSC145-165-180330-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0016.150718T0033Z-150718T0330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
733 PM CDT FRI JUL 17 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* AT 733 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LARNED AND ASH VALLEY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3823 9897 3815 9918 3828 9925 3840 9920
3845 9903 3826 9903 3826 9896
$$
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, 7:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 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.