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Areal Flood Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this areal flood warning at Oct 10, 2018, 3:15 AM CDT for Ellis County, Rush 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 2018, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2018, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Ellis County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 warning went out at Oct 9, 1:23 PM CDT, 13 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 1:23 PM CDT, 13 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 9, 4:24 AM CDT, 22 hours 51 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 424 AM CDT Tue Oct 9 2018 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-101000- Trego-Ellis-Scott-Lane-Ness-Rush-Hamilton-Kearny-Finney-Hodgeman- Pawnee-Stafford-Stanton-Grant-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa- Pratt-Morton-Stevens-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber- 424 AM CDT Tue Oct 9 2018 /324 AM MDT Tue Oct 9 2018/ This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...south central...southwest and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Day 1 Discussion ---------------- Showers and thunderstorms, heavy at times, can be expected across western and central Kansas today. A Flood Watch is currently in effect. Please see the latest Flood Watch product for more information. Temperatures tonight are expected to fall back into the low to mid 30s with frost possible west of highway 283. A Freeze Watch is currently in effect for late tonight. Please see the latest Freeze Watch product for more information. Day 1 Hazards ------------- * Flooding: Extreme risk * Lightning: Limited risk * Non-thunderstorm wind: Limited risk * Fog: Limited risk * Freeze: Elevated risk .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Days 2-7 Discussion ------------------- A Freeze Watch is currently in effect for early Wednesday morning. Please see the latest Freeze Watch product for more information. Temperatures falling in to 32 degrees or lower are expected across portions of western Kansas this weekend. Days 2-7 Hazards ---------------- * Wednesday - Freeze: Significant risk * Thursday - Lightning: Limited risk * Friday No hazards. * Saturday - Non thunderstorm wind: Limited risk - Freeze: Elevated risk * Sunday - Non thunderstorm wind: Limited risk - Freeze: Extreme risk - Snow: Limited risk * Monday - Freeze: Significant risk .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. && For more details visit our webpage http://weather.gov/ddc/ehwo
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 7:43 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 15 hr |
| Oct 9, 8:10 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Barber | 42 hr |
| Oct 10, 4:47 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DDC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman and 3 more | 28 hr |
| Oct 10, 4:47 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DDC | Ellis, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Scott, Trego | 28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.