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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2016, 7:52 PM CDT for Barber 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
- Aug 28, 2016, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2016, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
644 WGUS53 KDDC 290052 FFWDDC KSC007-290345- /O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0019.160829T0052Z-160829T0345Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 752 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 751 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURRING! * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... KIOWA...SHARON AND HAZELTON. LAT...LON 3700 9852 3733 9843 3729 9835 3700 9835 $$ UMSCHEID
2 follow-up statements
858 WGUS73 KDDC 290159 FFSDDC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 859 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016 KSC007-290345- /O.CON.KDDC.FF.W.0019.000000T0000Z-160829T0345Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BARBER KS- 859 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY... AT 858 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY STILL OCCURRING, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE HAZELTON AREA. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... KIOWA...SHARON AND HAZELTON. LAT...LON 3700 9852 3733 9843 3729 9835 3700 9835 $$ UMSCHEID
064 WGUS73 KDDC 290340 FFSDDC FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1040 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016 KSC007-290347- /O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0019.000000T0000Z-160829T0345Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BARBER KS- 1040 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1045 PM CDT... THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL HAS BEEN OVER FOR AN HOUR OR LONGER, AND THUS FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER A RISK. PLEASE CONTINUE TO EXERCISE CAUTION IF TRAVELING AS THERE MAY STILL BE SOME AREAS OF PONDING ON ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 3700 9852 3733 9843 3729 9835 3700 9835 $$ UMSCHEID
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Aug 29, 6:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Stafford | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray, Meade | 59 min |
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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.