Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2006
Flood Watch 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 27, 2006, 3:21 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 27, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2006, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 27, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2006, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Aug 26, 6:39 PM CDT, 20 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 6:39 PM CDT, 20 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 5:13 PM CDT, 22 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 513 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-272215- RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE- RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER- SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE- 415 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...MAINLY EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. THE MAIN SEVERE RISK WILL BE FOR DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE. AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THIS COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH A FEW STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO REMAIN POSSIBLE. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. IT IS TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ON THE RISK OR MAGNITUDE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...MAINLY FOR AREAS EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP DARMOFAL
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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.