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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2021, 6:03 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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 24, 2021, 6:03 PM MDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2021, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:10 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 N Kendall, KS | SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF 5 PLUS INCHES OF RAIN. |
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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted.
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WGUS53 KDDC 250003
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/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0009.210525T0003Z-210525T0400Z/
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
603 PM MDT Mon May 24 2021
The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
East Central Hamilton County in southwestern Kansas...
Northern Kearny County in southwestern Kansas...
* Until 1000 PM MDT /1100 PM CDT/.
* At 603 PM MDT /703 PM CDT/, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms
producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 3
inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Doppler radar.
IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, and streets as well as other drainage and
low lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Kendall.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3796 10164 3802 10165 3810 10159 3811 10158
3811 10157 3809 10149 3821 10136 3826 10133
3826 10132 3826 10129 3826 10127 3826 10125
3826 10124 3826 10116 3815 10115 3803 10133
3793 10153
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL...3-4 INCHES IN 4 HOURS
$$
BURGERTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 50 min |
| May 24, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 48 min |
| May 24, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 46 min |
| May 24, 6:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 48 min |
| May 24, 6:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 12 hr |
| May 24, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 64 min |
| May 24, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 57 min |
| May 24, 7:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 33 min |
| May 24, 8:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 6 hr |
| May 24, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 45 min |
| May 24, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 45 min |
| May 24, 8:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 40 min |
| May 24, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 48 min |
| May 24, 9:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 51 min |
| May 24, 9:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 50 min |
| May 24, 10:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 33 min |
| May 24, 10:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 49 min |
| May 24, 10:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 36 min |
| May 24, 11:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| May 24, 11:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 29 min |
| May 24, 11:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards | 39 min |
| May 24, 11:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Haskell | 45 min |
| May 25, 12:14 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ford | 61 min |
| May 25, 12:19 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 56 min |
| May 25, 1:25 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Clark | 65 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.