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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2016, 9:40 PM CDT for Trego 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 2, 2016, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2016, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
392 WGUS53 KDDC 030240 FFWDDC KSC195-030545- /O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0015.160703T0240Z-160703T0545Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 940 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 938 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN NEAR WAKEENEY AND ALONG INTERSTATE 70. RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN JUST IN THE LAST HOUR...WITH STORMS REMAINING STATIONARY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WAKEENEY...OGALLAH...COLLYER...RIGA AND VODA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3891 10014 3911 10014 3911 9962 3890 9961 $$ TURNER
3 follow-up statements
860 WGUS73 KDDC 030316 FFSDDC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1016 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2016 KSC195-030545- /O.CON.KDDC.FF.W.0015.000000T0000Z-160703T0545Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ TREGO KS- 1016 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY... AT 1013 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN OVER NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN. WITH STORMS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT...HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT HOUR. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WAKEENEY...OGALLAH...COLLYER...RIGA AND VODA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3891 10014 3911 10014 3911 9962 3890 9961 $$ TURNER
465 WGUS73 KDDC 030404 FFSDDC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1104 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2016 KSC195-030545- /O.CON.KDDC.FF.W.0015.000000T0000Z-160703T0545Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ TREGO KS- 1104 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY... AT 1102 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTING OVER NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN NORTH AND WEST OF WAKEENEY...WITH AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WIDESPREAD ACROSS NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY. SIGNIFICANT RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE INTO STREAMS...CREEKS...AND DITCHES THIS EVENING. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WAKEENEY...OGALLAH...COLLYER...RIGA AND VODA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3891 10014 3911 10014 3911 9962 3890 9961 $$ TURNER
566 WGUS73 KDDC 030545 FFSDDC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1245 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016 KSC195-030553- /O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0015.000000T0000Z-160703T0545Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ TREGO KS- 1245 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1245 AM CDT... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. THERE MAY BE SOME PONDING OF WATER AND HIGH FLOW IN SMALL STREAMS THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. BE ALERT IF TRAVELING ON SECONDARY ROADWAYS NORTH AND WEST OF WAKEENEY. LAT...LON 3891 10014 3911 10014 3911 9962 3890 9961 $$ RUTHI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 39 min |
| Jul 2, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 7:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 119 min |
| Jul 2, 10:01 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Meade | 43 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 48 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2016Every flash 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.