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Areal Flood Advisory 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 5, 2018Grant County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this areal flood advisory at Sep 5, 2018, 4:35 AM CDT for Grant County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 5, 2018, 4:35 AM CDT (09:35 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2018, 7:08 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Grant County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Sep 4, 5:08 PM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 5:08 PM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes before

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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
Sep 4, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	65 min
Sep 4, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	62 min
Sep 4, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton, Stanton	57 min
Sep 4, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Haskell	53 min
Sep 4, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward, Stevens	56 min
Sep 4, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	63 min
Sep 5, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade, Seward	59 min
Sep 5, 2:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	58 min
Sep 5, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	54 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Kansas, 2018 Every areal flood advisory in 2018

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.