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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 15, 2016Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2016, 4:57 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: Jul 15, 2016, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2016, 8:00 PM 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), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 568 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1322 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

452 
WGUS53 KDDC 152257
FFWDDC
KSC075-160200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0017.160715T2257Z-160716T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
457 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 456 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS SLOWLY
  DECREASING ACROSS HAMILTON COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES WIDESPREAD
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES. DANGEROUS RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE
  INTO STREAMS...CREEKS...AND DITCHES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER OF
  UNKNOWN DEPTH. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  SYRACUSE AND COOLIDGE. 

LAT...LON 3824 10203 3825 10157 3786 10157 3787 10202

$$

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2 follow-up statements

401 
WGUS73 KDDC 160004
FFSDDC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
604 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016

KSC075-160200-
/O.CON.KDDC.FF.W.0017.000000T0000Z-160716T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
HAMILTON KS-
604 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR
HAMILTON COUNTY...

AT 602 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED
ACROSS HAMILTON COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES HAVE BEEN
WIDESPREAD ACROSS HAMILTON COUNTY THIS EVENING. 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...
SYRACUSE AND COOLIDGE. 

LAT...LON 3824 10203 3825 10157 3786 10157 3787 10202

$$

TURNER

152 
WGUS73 KDDC 160151
FFSDDC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
751 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016

KSC075-160200-
/O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0017.000000T0000Z-160716T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
HAMILTON KS-
751 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HAMILTON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM
MDT...

RAINFALL HAS ENDED AND RUNOFF HAS RECEDED. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING
WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT.
 
LAT...LON 3824 10203 3825 10157 3786 10157 3787 10202

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 2:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	59 min
Jul 15, 3:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	44 min
Jul 15, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	56 min
Jul 15, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	32 min
Jul 15, 3:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton	27 min
Jul 15, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	48 min
Jul 15, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	57 min
Jul 15, 3:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stanton	43 min
Jul 15, 3:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Scott	44 min
Jul 15, 3:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton	34 min
Jul 15, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	46 min
Jul 15, 4:04 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton	26 min
Jul 15, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell	50 min
Jul 15, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray	60 min
Jul 15, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	65 min
Jul 15, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	25 min
Jul 15, 4:34 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Gray	41 min
Jul 15, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	54 min
Jul 15, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	60 min
Jul 15, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Meade	54 min
Jul 15, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	44 min
Jul 15, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	53 min
Jul 15, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade, Seward	54 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.