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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Wichita, KS

May 31, 200822 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at May 31, 2008, 3:04 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 31, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 2008, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
In effect from: May 31, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 1, 2008, 2:37 PM CDT
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity: None

All 22 counties

Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -258 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at May 31, 2:53 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:53 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 5:25 AM CDT, 9 hours 39 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
525 AM CDT SAT MAY 31 2008

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-011030-
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-
525 AM CDT SAT MAY 31 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN
KANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH
VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THERE IS ALSO THE
POSSIBILITY FOR A BRIEF TORNADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA FROM
SUNDAY INTO MONDAY MORNING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE
ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS WITH VERY LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY FOR A BRIEF
TORNADO SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

WHILE THE WEATHER MAY QUIET DOWN SOME TUESDAY INTO
WEDNESDAY...LATEST DATA INDICATES THAT A SIGNIFICANT SEVERE
WEATHER OUTBREAK MAY BE POSSIBLE SOMETIME THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY
ACROSS THE KANSAS REGION. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR LATER OUTLOOKS AS
DETAILS BECOME CLEARER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TODAY INTO THIS EVENING
ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. STORM SPOTTERS MAY
ALSO BE NEEDED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

JMC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 10:02 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 31, 10:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	55 min
May 30, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	55 min
May 31, 3:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick	42 min
May 31, 4:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno, Sedgwick	48 min
May 31, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	37 min
May 31, 5:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	52 min
May 31, 5:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	62 min
May 31, 5:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	27 min
May 31, 5:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	56 min
May 31, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	34 min
May 31, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	45 min
May 31, 5:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	44 min
May 31, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	28 min
May 31, 6:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	63 min
May 31, 6:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	59 min
May 31, 6:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	37 min
May 31, 6:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	62 min
May 31, 6:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	5 hr
May 31, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	43 min
May 31, 7:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	65 min
May 31, 7:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	47 min
May 31, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	50 min
May 31, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	48 min
May 31, 8:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	51 min
May 31, 9:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	44 min
May 31, 9:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Elk	65 min
May 31, 9:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery	6 hr
May 31, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	55 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2008 Every flash flood watch in 2008

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.