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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS

August 15, 1996Chase County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1996, 11:42 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 1996, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1996, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Chase County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1736 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 11:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChase2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.