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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Wichita, KS

July 7, 2010Allen County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2010, 7:07 PM CDT for Allen County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2010, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2010, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Allen County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2010-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1641 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2010-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:52 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Montgomery24 hr
Jul 7, 9:36 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTMcPherson, Saline4 hr
Jul 7, 11:04 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTAllen22 hr
Jul 8, 1:02 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTButler, Chase, Marion8 hr
Jul 8, 1:30 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTMcPherson9 hr
Jul 8, 11:43 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTNeosho, Wilson4 hr
Jul 8, 6:17 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTNeosho16 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.