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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 28, 2025Ness County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2025, 12:41 AM CDT for Ness County, Trego 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
Aug 28, 2025, 12:41 AM CDT (05:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2025, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Ness County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:44 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 28, 1:15 AM CDTFLASH FLOOD6 Nnw Brownell, KSEmergency manager reported flash flooding and washed out roads, with hay bales carried by the water into the road, near Page Creek Bridge. Time estimated via radar and flood guidance.

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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1155 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
5.4

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The text

As transmitted.

099 
WGUS53 KDDC 280541
FFWDDC
KSC135-195-280845-
/O.NEW.KDDC.FF.W.0021.250828T0541Z-250828T0845Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
1241 AM CDT Thu Aug 28 2025

The National Weather Service in Dodge City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Northeastern Ness County in west central Kansas...
  Western Trego County in west central Kansas...

* Until 345 AM CDT.

* At 1241 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing 
  heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain 
  have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are 
  possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected 
  to begin shortly.

  HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

  SOURCE...Radar.

  IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
           areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
           other poor drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
  Ransom, Collyer, Brownell, Trego Center and Voda.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood 
deaths occur in vehicles.

&&

LAT...LON 3888 10014 3901 10015 3903 10015 3905 10015
      3907 10015 3909 10003 3870 9967 3864 9963
      3850 9989 3870 10002

FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED

$$

JJOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 7:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCStanton3 hr
Aug 27, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens44 min
Aug 27, 8:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward45 min
Aug 27, 9:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCSeward3 hr
Aug 27, 10:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell30 min
Aug 27, 11:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHaskell36 min
Aug 28, 12:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCKearny, Scott37 min
Aug 28, 12:52 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCFinney23 min
Aug 28, 1:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCGray29 min
Aug 28, 1:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCClark26 min
Aug 28, 1:34 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCPawnee, Stafford3 hr
Aug 28, 1:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCComanche24 min
Aug 28, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCClark, Comanche3 hr
Aug 28, 2:53 AM CDTFlood WatchDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt and 1 more7 hr
Aug 28, 7:53 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDDCEllis, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Ness, Rush104 min
Aug 28, 10:36 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDDCClark, Comanche5 hr

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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.