Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2010
Flood Watch 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flood watch at May 19, 2010, 3:55 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 19, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2010, 3:55 AM CDT (08:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 19, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 20, 2010, 3:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1300 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.