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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 2019Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 2019, 3:06 PM CDT for Pratt 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 7, 2019, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2019, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -327 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 416 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

356 
WGUS53 KDDC 072006
FFWDDC
KSC151-080200-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0008.190507T2006Z-190508T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
306 PM CDT Tue May 7 2019

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Southern Pratt County in south central Kansas...

* Until 900 PM CDT.

* At 302 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing 
  heavy rain across the warned area. Doppler radar is indicating 
  that up to four inches of rain have already fallen. Law 
  enforcement reports that flooding is occurring across 
  southern Pratt County.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Pratt, Sawyer, Cullison, Isabel, Coats, Cairo and Croft. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3747 9901 3761 9901 3774 9847 3747 9847

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	50 min
May 6, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Morton, Stanton	61 min
May 6, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	18 min
May 6, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	50 min
May 6, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	54 min
May 6, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	45 min
May 6, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	51 min
May 6, 8:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	4 hr
May 6, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny	49 min
May 6, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	47 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	45 min
May 6, 8:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Pawnee	4 hr
May 6, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens	46 min
May 6, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Morton	3 hr
May 6, 9:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	31 min
May 6, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	30 min
May 6, 9:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pawnee	3 hr
May 6, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	48 min
May 6, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane and 1 more	43 min
May 6, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	31 min
May 6, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	45 min
May 6, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	54 min
May 6, 9:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Edwards	24 min
May 6, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	51 min
May 6, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	50 min
May 6, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards	15 min
May 6, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	47 min
May 6, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 2 more	47 min
May 6, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Morton	104 min
May 6, 10:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	2 hr
May 6, 10:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	47 min
May 6, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	24 min
May 6, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	57 min
May 6, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	44 min
May 6, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford	49 min
May 6, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pratt, Stafford	47 min
May 6, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	16 min
May 7, 12:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	12 hr
May 7, 4:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	63 min
May 7, 10:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	48 min
May 7, 11:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	32 min
May 7, 11:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	47 min
May 7, 12:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	24 hr
May 7, 12:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	33 min
May 7, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Pratt	35 min
May 7, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stevens	28 min
May 7, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Seward	27 min
May 7, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Comanche	26 min
May 7, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Clark	27 min
May 7, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Barber	24 min
May 7, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford	34 min
May 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Meade	37 min
May 7, 5:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Clark	4 hr
May 7, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kiowa	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.