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Flood Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 17, 20256 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flood watch at Jun 17, 2025, 12:23 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 17, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2025, 12:23 PM CDT (17:23 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 17, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 18, 2025, 2:22 AM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Flood severity
None

Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 12:00Z on 2025-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 711 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 12:00Z on 2025-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 480 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
711 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-493 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
480 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
751 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.7

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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 Jun 17, 12:02 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 12:02 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 3:29 AM CDT, 8 hours 54 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
329 AM CDT Tue Jun 17 2025

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-180830-
Trego-Ellis-Scott-Lane-Ness-Rush-Hamilton-Kearny-Finney-Hodgeman-
Pawnee-Stafford-Stanton-Grant-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa-
Pratt-Morton-Stevens-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber-
329 AM CDT Tue Jun 17 2025 /229 AM MDT Tue Jun 17 2025/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas,
south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Significant severe potential exists as storms are expected to
develop on Tuesday. With these storms a strong MCS is forecasted
to move across Kansas producing very strong and damaging winds.
All hazards are possible with organized wind being the largest
threat. Some uncertainty still remains both spatially and due to
the previous overnight's storms.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected unless multiple discrete cells
are able to develop and maintain themselves.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:03 AM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 10:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCTrego28 min
Jun 16, 11:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis32 min
Jun 17, 12:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEllis61 min
Jun 17, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego55 min
Jun 17, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDDCEllis, Rush38 min
Jun 17, 1:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego47 min
Jun 17, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush, Trego62 min
Jun 17, 2:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Rush, Stafford39 min
Jun 17, 2:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford51 min
Jun 17, 3:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPratt31 min
Jun 17, 12:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCRush52 min
Jun 17, 12:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCRush32 min
Jun 17, 1:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCEdwards31 min
Jun 17, 4:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber37 min
Jun 17, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber42 min
Jun 17, 6:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCScott49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.