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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Wichita, KS

June 10, 200912 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jun 10, 2009, 12:26 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 10, 2009, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2009, 12:26 PM CDT (17:26 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 10, 2009, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 11, 2009, 1:07 AM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity
None

Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2009-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2009-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 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 Jun 10, 6:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 6:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner57 min
Jun 9, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Labette, Neosho61 min
Jun 9, 7:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTElk, Wilson6 hr
Jun 9, 7:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTNeosho, Wilson4 hr
Jun 9, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner31 min
Jun 9, 7:50 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTLabette, Montgomery5 hr
Jun 9, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley11 min
Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTLabette, Montgomery6 hr
Jun 9, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette, Neosho31 min
Jun 9, 10:55 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTNeosho8 hr
Jun 10, 1:14 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTWilson4 hr
Jun 10, 1:37 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTMontgomery5 hr
Jun 10, 6:32 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTLabette, Neosho26 hr
Jun 10, 8:17 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTNeosho12 hr
Jun 10, 8:17 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTLabette36 hr
Jun 10, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette32 min

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.