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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 16, 2016Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 2016, 2:25 AM CDT for Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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: Apr 16, 2016, 2:25 AM CDT (07:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2016, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

889 
WGUS53 KDDC 160725
FFWDDC
KSC081-161315-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0002.160416T0725Z-160416T1315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
225 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...

* UNTIL 815 AM CDT

* AT 221 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS
  MOVING INTO AN ALREADY SATURATED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  SUBLETTE AND ANY LOW LYING COUNTY ROADS.   

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3765 10073 3754 10070 3742 10085 3753 10096

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

510 
WGUS73 KDDC 161318
FFSDDC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
818 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2016

KSC081-161326-
/O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160416T1315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
HASKELL KS-
818 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL HASKELL COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PERIODS OF STEADY RAINFALL HOWEVER IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
THROUGH LATE MORNING WHICH STILL MAY RESULT IN SOME PONDING OF WATER
ON ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. 

LAT...LON 3765 10073 3754 10070 3742 10085 3753 10096

$$

RBURG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	41 min
Apr 15, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Morton, Stevens	24 min
Apr 15, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	46 min
Apr 15, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Morton	25 min
Apr 15, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton, Stevens	51 min
Apr 15, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	31 min
Apr 15, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stanton, Stevens	50 min
Apr 15, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	43 min
Apr 15, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	45 min
Apr 15, 11:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Morton	12 hr
Apr 15, 11:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Gray	39 min
Apr 16, 12:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Morton	8 hr
Apr 16, 5:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade	6 hr
Apr 16, 7:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	6 hr
Apr 16, 12:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton	43 min
Apr 16, 1:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Meade	6 hr
Apr 16, 1:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	6 hr
Apr 16, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Stanton, Stevens	46 min
Apr 16, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant	57 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.