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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 2018, 7:34 PM CDT for Grant County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2018, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2018, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Grant County, KS, Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 9:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 10 N Ulysses, KS | FLOODING OVER MULTIPLE ROADS WITHIN THE COUNTY REPORTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND EMERGENCY MANAGER. |
| Aug 18, 9:40 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 8 N Hickok, KS | MULTIPLE ROADS MORE FLOODED AT RD I TO PATTERSON, RD 5 FROM HWY 25 TO RD P, AND RD R SOUTH OF HWY 160. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted.
572 WGUS53 KDDC 190034 FFWDDC KSC067-093-190330- /O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0025.180819T0034Z-180819T0330Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED Flash Flood Warning National Weather Service Dodge City KS 734 PM CDT SAT AUG 18 2018 The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Southern Kearny County in southwestern Kansas... Northern Grant County in southwestern Kansas... * Until 1030 PM CDT. * At 734 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly. * Flash flooding will remain over mainly rural areas of southern Kearny and northern Grant Counties. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Please report flooding to your local law enforcement agency when you can do so safely. && LAT...LON 3784 10116 3767 10115 3770 10150 3782 10148 $$ HOVORKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Kearny | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 17 min |
| Aug 18, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 18 min |
| Aug 18, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 21 min |
| Aug 18, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 68 min |
| Aug 18, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 4 hr |
| Aug 18, 9:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 58 min |
| Aug 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 6:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.