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Flood Watch 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 28, 202225 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flood watch at Jul 28, 2022, 12:12 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 29, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2022, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 29, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jul 30, 2022, 1:37 AM CDT
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Flood severity
None
All 25 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jul 28, 12:03 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 12:03 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 10:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMorton, Stanton39 min
Jul 28, 3:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton50 min
Jul 28, 5:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGrant31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.