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Flood Watch 3, NWS Wichita, KS

August 25, 200618 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 25, 2006, 2:48 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 25, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 2006, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 25, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 26, 2006, 3:35 AM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity
None

Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 2006-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1035 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 2006-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1035 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Aug 25, 11:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 11:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood47 min
Aug 25, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley33 min
Aug 25, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood, Wilson, Woodson62 min
Aug 25, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua53 min
Aug 25, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson, Woodson53 min
Aug 25, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln66 min

Nearby

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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.