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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 14, 2021Ness County, Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2021, 11:07 PM CDT for Ness County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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 14, 2021, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2021, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 1153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

085 
WGUS53 KDDC 150407
FFWDDC
KSC135-165-150700-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0001.210515T0407Z-210515T0700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1107 PM CDT Fri May 14 2021

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Central Rush County in central Kansas...
  Northeastern Ness County in west central Kansas...

* Until 200 AM CDT.

* At 1107 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing 
  heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 4 inches of rain 
  have fallen. Flash flooding is already occurring.

  HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

  SOURCE...Doppler radar.

  IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
           highways, streets and underpasses as well as other
           drainage and low lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
  La Crosse, Bison, McCracken, Timken, Hargrave and Shaffer.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the 
dangers of flooding.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 9958 3861 9933 3849 9904 3839 9903
      3846 9921 3854 9956 3853 9964 3856 9975
      3865 9971 3870 9967

FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL...1 INCH IN 1 HOUR 

$$

RUSSELL

1 follow-up statement

640 
WGUS73 KDDC 150658
FFSDDC

Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
158 AM CDT Sat May 15 2021

KSC135-165-150708-
/O.EXP.KDDC.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-210515T0700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Ness KS-Rush KS-
158 AM CDT Sat May 15 2021

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 2 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING 
FOR CENTRAL RUSH AND NORTHEASTERN NESS COUNTIES...

The heavy rain has ended. Flash flooding is no longer expected to 
pose a threat.

LAT...LON 3853 9964 3856 9975 3865 9971 3870 9967
      3870 9966 3870 9964 3869 9958 3861 9933
      3849 9904 3842 9903 3840 9903 3839 9903
      3846 9921 3854 9956

$$

UMSCHEID

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Stanton	42 min
May 14, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	19 min
May 14, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	43 min
May 14, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	66 min
May 14, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	56 min
May 14, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	54 min
May 14, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	67 min
May 14, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	57 min
May 14, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	54 min
May 14, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	43 min
May 14, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Pawnee, Rush, Trego	57 min
May 14, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	49 min
May 14, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness, Scott	47 min
May 14, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Hamilton	50 min
May 14, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness	51 min
May 14, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Rush	40 min
May 14, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	33 min
May 14, 11:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	53 min
May 15, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	48 min

Nearby

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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.