Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2015
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2015, 9:48 PM MDT for Hamilton 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
- Aug 16, 2015, 9:48 PM MDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2015, 12:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Hamilton County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
478
WGUS53 KDDC 170348
FFWDDC
KSC075-170645-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0018.150817T0348Z-150817T0645Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
948 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1245 AM MDT
* AT 947 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY.
* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
HAMILTON COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3826 10204 3826 10189 3815 10186 3814 10204
3824 10205
$$
HOVORKAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 6:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 7:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 23 min |
| Aug 16, 8:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Scott | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 9:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Hamilton, Kearny | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 9:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 9:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Kearny, Stanton | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 10:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward, Stevens | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 12:46 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 12 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:51 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 12 hr |
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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.