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Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 14, 2018Clark County, Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this areal flood warning at Aug 14, 2018, 6:29 AM CDT for Clark County, Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 9 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
Aug 14, 2018, 6:29 AM CDT (11:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2018, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:28 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 298 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2018-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 519 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2018-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 7:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCEllis, Rush6 hr
Aug 13, 7:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCClark114 min
Aug 13, 8:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade51 min
Aug 14, 1:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray37 min
Aug 14, 2:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade64 min
Aug 14, 3:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade53 min

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.