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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 30, 201919 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood watch at Sep 30, 2019, 2:16 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 1, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 30, 2019, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 1, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 2, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Flood severity
None

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 10 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2019-09-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 278 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2019-09-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-380 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1420 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.