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Flood Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
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.
- 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
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 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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 11:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush, Trego | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 39 min |
| Jun 17, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 3:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 12:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 52 min |
| Jun 17, 12:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Rush | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 1:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Edwards | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 37 min |
| Jun 17, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 49 min |
Nearby
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.