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Flood Watch 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 10, 2025, 6:07 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 10, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2025, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 10, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2025, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 10, 5:26 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 5:26 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 2:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 205 PM CDT Sun Aug 10 2025 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-111000- 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- 205 PM CDT Sun Aug 10 2025 /105 PM MDT Sun Aug 10 2025/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas, south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible this evening and overnight. Wind gusts in excess of 60 to 70 mph and hail as large as ping pong ball size are the main concerns. Locally heavy rain is expected. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Reports of severe weather, heavy rainfall, and flooding are appreciated.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 2:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Scott | 26 min |
| Aug 10, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 51 min |
| Aug 10, 2:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 2:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 41 min |
| Aug 10, 3:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ness | 70 min |
| Aug 10, 3:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Kearny | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 3:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Trego | 54 min |
| Aug 10, 3:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Ellis | 71 min |
| Aug 10, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 29 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.