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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 23, 2018Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 2018, 9:38 PM CDT for Barber 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2018, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2018, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

598 
WGUS53 KDDC 240238
FFWDDC
KSC007-240830-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0002.180524T0238Z-180524T0830Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
938 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2018

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  South central Barber County in south central Kansas...

* Until 330 AM CDT

* At 937 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing 
  heavy rain across the warned area. Three to four inches of rain 
  have already fallen. Flash flooding is expected.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Hardtner.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.

&&

LAT...LON 3712 9883 3719 9855 3700 9851 3700 9883

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	60 min
May 23, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	26 min
May 23, 8:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	DDC	Barber, Comanche	3 hr
May 23, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	30 min
May 23, 9:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	33 min
May 23, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	25 min
May 23, 10:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	43 min
May 24, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	59 min
May 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	60 min
May 24, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	56 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2018 Every flash flood warning 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.