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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 25, 2019Barber County, Clark County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2019, 6:26 PM CDT for Barber County, Clark County, Comanche 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: May 25, 2019, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2019, 9:03 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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
May 25, 7:26 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Protection, KS	SOCIAL MEDIA PHOTO OF STREET FLOODING IN PROTECTION.
May 25, 7:30 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Medicine Lodge, KS	STREET FLOODING IN MEDICINE LODGE, NEAR THE FIRE STATION.

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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 1368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

769 
WGUS53 KDDC 252326
FFWDDC
KSC007-025-033-260230-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0013.190525T2326Z-190526T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
626 PM CDT Sat May 25 2019

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Barber County in south central Kansas...
  Comanche County in south central Kansas...
  Clark County in southwestern Kansas...

* Until 930 PM CDT.

* At 626 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
  heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is expected to
  begin shortly.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Ashland, Coldwater, Protection, Hardtner,
  Sharon, Hazelton, Englewood, Sitka, Lake City, Wilmore, Aetna, Lake
  Coldwater, Acres and Buttermilk.

LAT...LON 3700 10001 3735 10001 3735 9835 3700 9835

$$

SUGDEN

1 follow-up statement

160 
WGUS73 KDDC 260203
FFSDDC

Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
903 PM CDT Sat May 25 2019

KSC007-025-033-260213-
/O.CAN.KDDC.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-190526T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Barber KS-Comanche KS-Clark KS-
903 PM CDT Sat May 25 2019

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BARBER...COMANCHE AND CLARK COUNTIES
IS CANCELLED...

The heavy rain has ended. Flood waters have or will continue to 
receded. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Please 
continue to heed any remaining road closures.

LAT...LON 3700 10001 3735 10001 3735 9835 3700 9835

$$

TATRO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 3:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	24 hr
May 25, 3:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DDC	Stafford	64 hr
May 25, 3:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DDC	Barber	68 hr
May 25, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell, Seward	22 min
May 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	24 min
May 25, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	42 min
May 25, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	40 min
May 25, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	37 min
May 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant	31 min
May 25, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	39 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stanton	26 min
May 25, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Grant, Haskell	43 min
May 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	22 min
May 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell	35 min
May 25, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Finney, Kearny	35 min
May 25, 6:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Grant	102 min
May 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	57 min
May 25, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	35 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.