Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2007
Flood Watch 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at May 1, 2007, 3:56 AM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 1, 2007, 3:05 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2007, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 1, 2007, 3:05 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 2:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 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, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2152 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.