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Areal Flood Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS

June 2, 2011Saline County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Jun 2, 2011, 9:29 AM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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: Jun 2, 2011, 9:29 AM CDT (14:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2011, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Saline County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 2, 5:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 5:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 6:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 6:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 8:32 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:06 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:26 AM CDT, 3 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
Jun 1, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	58 min
Jun 1, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	66 min
Jun 1, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	63 min
Jun 1, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	53 min
Jun 1, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	39 min
Jun 1, 8:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	9 hr
Jun 1, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	66 min
Jun 1, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	26 min
Jun 1, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	54 min
Jun 1, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	26 min
Jun 1, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	67 min
Jun 1, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	54 min
Jun 1, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline	42 min
Jun 1, 10:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	12 hr
Jun 1, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	53 min
Jun 1, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	58 min
Jun 1, 10:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	4 days
Jun 1, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	60 min
Jun 1, 11:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	10 hr
Jun 1, 11:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion, Saline	35 min
Jun 1, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	26 min
Jun 2, 12:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	67 hr
Jun 2, 2:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	7 hr
Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more	16 hr
Jun 2, 9:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	6 hr
Jun 2, 9:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	11 hr
Jun 2, 9:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	5 hr
Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	30 hr
Jun 2, 3:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	6 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2011 Every areal flood warning in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.