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Areal Flood Warning 24, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 4, 2016Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this areal flood warning at Sep 4, 2016, 8:47 AM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 12 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
Sep 4, 2016, 8:47 AM CDT (13:47 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 392 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 395 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
392 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
395 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
424 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 12:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis, Trego62 min
Sep 4, 1:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis61 min
Sep 4, 3:06 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryDDCEllis6 hr
Sep 4, 3:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCEllis5 hr
Sep 4, 2:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton67 min
Sep 4, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott31 min

Nearby

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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.