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Areal Flood Advisory 11, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this areal flood advisory at Sep 30, 2021, 1:07 AM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 2021, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2021, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Grant County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 981 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Sep 29, 11:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 11:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 29, 3:15 AM CDT, 21 hours 52 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 315 AM CDT Wed Sep 29 2021 KSZ063>066-076>081-086>090-300815- Finney-Hodgeman-Pawnee-Stafford-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa- Pratt-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber- 315 AM CDT Wed Sep 29 2021 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...south central...southwest and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Day 1 Discussion ---------------- Thunderstorms are expected late Wednesday night into early Thursday along a cold front diving south through the central plains. While severe weather is not expected owing to weak deep layer shear, high precipitable water and slow moving storms will foster at least some flash flood risk. As a result, a Flash Flood Watch has been issued for Trego, Ellis, Lane, Ness, and Rush counties from 7 pm CDT Wednesday through 10 am CDT Thursday where highest confidence in 1-2" per hour rainfall rates exists. Day 1 Hazards ------------- * Lightning: Elevated risk * Non-thunderstorm wind: Limited risk * Fire weather: Elevated risk .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. && For more details visit our webpage https://weather.gov/erh/ghwo?wfo=ddc Springer
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 10:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 66 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.