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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 2021, 6:58 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report 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 16, 2021, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 16, 7:51 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | La Crosse, KS | REPORTS OF WATER OVER HIGHWAY 183 AND OTHER ROADS IN LA CROSSE. |
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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WGUS53 KDDC 162358
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KSC165-170300-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0002.210516T2358Z-210517T0300Z/
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
658 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Rush County in central Kansas...
* Until 1000 PM CDT.
* At 658 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to 1 inch of rain has
fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly due
to saturated ground from previous heavy rains as well as the
current rain falling.
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, Otis, Bison, Rush Center, Liebenthal, Timken, Loretta,
Hargrave, Pfeifer and Shaffer.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3844 9903 3846 9935 3861 9959 3870 9958
3870 9904
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL...1-3 INCHES IN 3 HOURS
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 49 min |
| May 15, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton | 41 min |
| May 15, 9:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 35 min |
| May 15, 9:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 48 min |
| May 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray | 46 min |
| May 15, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 43 min |
| May 15, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 42 min |
| May 15, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 38 min |
| May 15, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 23 min |
| May 15, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Wichita | 41 min |
| May 15, 10:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 52 min |
| May 15, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 49 min |
| May 15, 10:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 44 min |
| May 15, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 41 min |
| May 15, 10:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stevens | 36 min |
| May 15, 10:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 42 min |
| May 15, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 18 min |
| May 15, 11:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 38 min |
| May 15, 11:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 47 min |
| May 15, 11:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 34 min |
| May 15, 11:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 14 min |
| May 15, 11:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 23 min |
| May 15, 11:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney, Gray, Meade | 43 min |
| May 16, 12:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pawnee | 45 min |
| May 16, 12:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stafford | 27 min |
| May 16, 12:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 45 min |
| May 16, 12:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| May 16, 1:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DDC | Scott | 3 hr |
| May 16, 3:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DDC | Lane, Scott | 25 hr |
| May 16, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 56 min |
| May 16, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 51 min |
| May 16, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 40 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.