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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 4, 2016Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2016, 7:29 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 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
Aug 4, 2016, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2016, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
2 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), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 00:00Z on 2016-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 583 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2016-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
583 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

792 
WGUS53 KDDC 050029
FFWDDC
KSC195-050230-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0018.160805T0029Z-160805T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
729 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 727 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES WIDESPREAD
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS
  APPROACHING 4 INCHES. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL IS CONTINUING
  WHICH WILL EXACERBATE RUNOFF THROUGH 930 PM CDT. 

* DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  COLLYER...VODA AND TREGO CENTER. 

LAT...LON 3885 9989 3885 10015 3913 10015 3913 9991

$$

TURNER
2 follow-up statements
842 
WGUS73 KDDC 050126
FFSDDC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
826 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

KSC195-050230-
/O.CON.KDDC.FF.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160805T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
TREGO KS-
826 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY...

AT 822 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR RAIN WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED
AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES
THIS EVENING. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN WEST OF WAKEENEY AND
SOUTH OF COLLYER. RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE INTO DITCHES...CREEKS AND
STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
COLLYER...VODA AND TREGO CENTER. 

LAT...LON 3885 9989 3885 10015 3913 10015 3913 9991

$$

TURNER
965 
WGUS73 KDDC 050224
FFSDDC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
924 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

KSC195-050233-
/O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160805T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
TREGO KS-
924 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN TREGO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 930 PM CDT...

FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO
HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES. LIGHT RAIN AND ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING. 

LAT...LON 3885 9989 3885 10015 3913 10015 3913 9991

$$

TURNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 7:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCTrego62 min
Aug 4, 7:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward66 min
Aug 4, 7:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade55 min
Aug 4, 8:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord, Gray62 min
Aug 4, 8:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFord61 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.