Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2007
Flood Watch 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at May 14, 2007, 3:39 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 14, 2007, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2007, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 14, 2007, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2007, 5:41 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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.