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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 19, 2018Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2018, 7:54 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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: Jun 19, 2018, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2018, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 2016 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

As transmitted.

727 
WGUS53 KDDC 200054
FFWDDC
KSC129-200400-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0010.180620T0054Z-180620T0400Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
754 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2018

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Southeastern Morton County in southwestern Kansas...

* Until 1100 PM CDT.

* At 753 PM CDT, emergency management reported thunderstorms
  producing heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is
  occurring at this time.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Rolla, Richfield and Wilburton. 

LAT...LON 3700 10179 3707 10191 3727 10191 3730 10156
      3699 10156

$$

JJOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	56 min
Jun 19, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	53 min
Jun 19, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	17 min
Jun 19, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	49 min
Jun 19, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis, Rush	59 min
Jun 19, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	53 min
Jun 19, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Hamilton, Kearny	65 min
Jun 19, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Hamilton, Kearny	55 min
Jun 19, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Scott	54 min
Jun 19, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	41 min
Jun 19, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	43 min
Jun 19, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	38 min
Jun 19, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Lane and 2 more	65 min
Jun 19, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	62 min
Jun 19, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	53 min
Jun 19, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa and 3 more	57 min
Jun 19, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens	55 min
Jun 19, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	48 min
Jun 19, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego	46 min
Jun 19, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman, Ness	14 min
Jun 19, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa and 3 more	67 min
Jun 19, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Pawnee, Rush	35 min
Jun 19, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more	60 min
Jun 19, 11:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	9 hr
Jun 19, 11:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	9 hr
Jun 19, 11:58 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	20 hr
Jun 19, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt and 1 more	34 min
Jun 20, 12:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ellis	91 min
Jun 20, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton, Stanton	67 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.