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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Aug 9, 2008, 3:32 AM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 9, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2008, 3:32 AM CDT (08:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 9, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2008, 9:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 1232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1094 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 Aug 9, 3:17 AM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 3:17 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 6:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 4 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 4 hr |
| Aug 9, 1:44 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 14 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 31 hr |
| Aug 9, 6:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase | 10 hr |
Nearby
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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.