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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 30, 2017Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2017, 5:40 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 2017, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 2017, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 30, 6:45 PM CDTFLASH FLOOD2 W Johnson City, KSWATER OVER THE ROAD NEAR ROAD 12, OLD HIGHWAY 160.
Jul 30, 6:45 PM CDTFLASH FLOOD6 N Johnson City, KSWATER OVER THE ROAD ON KANSAS HIGHWAY 27 NEAR MILE MARKER 53.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 12:00Z on 2017-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2017-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

992 
WGUS53 KDDC 302240
FFWDDC
KSC187-310145-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0017.170730T2240Z-170731T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
540 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 2017

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Central Stanton County in southwestern Kansas...

* Until 845 PM CDT

* At 539 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
  heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is expected to
  begin shortly.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Johnson City and Manter. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

Please report flooding to your local law enforcement agency when you
can do so safely.

&&

LAT...LON 3772 10157 3749 10157 3748 10200 3771 10203

$$

HOVORKA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 3:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDDCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens15 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.