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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood watch at Aug 14, 2008, 3:49 AM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Republic County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 14, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2008, 3:49 AM CDT (08:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 14, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2008, 9:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 1872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 10:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Nemaha | 114 min |
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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.