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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 2015, 8:39 PM CDT for Grant 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
- Sep 10, 2015, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2015, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Grant County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
395 WGUS53 KDDC 110139 FFWDDC KSC067-110430- /O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0019.150911T0139Z-150911T0430Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 839 PM CDT THU SEP 10 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS... * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 837 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... ULYSSES. WATER WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROAD AT HIGHWAY 25 AND ROAD 16 SOUTH OF ULYSSES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3755 10129 3744 10125 3748 10141 3758 10139 $$ RUSSELL
1 follow-up statement
845 WGUS73 KDDC 110430 FFSDDC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1130 PM CDT THU SEP 10 2015 KSC067-110440- /O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0019.000000T0000Z-150911T0430Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ GRANT KS- 1130 PM CDT THU SEP 10 2015 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... FLOOD WATERS HAVE RECEDED...AND ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. LAT...LON 3755 10129 3744 10125 3748 10141 3758 10139 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 35 min |
| Sep 10, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 69 min |
| Sep 10, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 45 min |
| Sep 10, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Seward, Stevens | 23 min |
| Sep 10, 7:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Stanton | 12 hr |
| Sep 10, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 59 min |
| Sep 10, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 60 min |
| Sep 10, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 32 min |
| Sep 10, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 30 min |
| Sep 10, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 21 min |
| Sep 10, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 31 min |
| Sep 11, 4:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 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.