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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS

July 15, 2010Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2010, 10:08 PM CDT for Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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 15, 2010, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2010, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 warning went out at Jul 15, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 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
Jul 15, 7:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	3 hr
Jul 15, 8:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	3 hr
Jul 15, 9:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	5 hr
Jul 16, 1:28 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more	30 hr
Jul 16, 3:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Greenwood	3 hr
Jul 16, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2010 Every 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.