Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2007
Flood Watch 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flood watch at May 14, 2007, 2:42 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 14, 2007, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2007, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 14, 2007, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2007, 6:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 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.