Alert archive / Kansas / Areal Flood Warnings in 2016
Areal Flood Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this areal flood warning at Apr 20, 2016, 5:14 AM CDT for Grant County, Haskell County, Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 2016, 5:14 AM CDT (10:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2016, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Apr 20, 3:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 3:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 11:17 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 11 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 6:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford, Meade | 47 min |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2016Every areal flood warning in 2016
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.