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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS

April 25, 2011Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Apr 25, 2011, 6:27 PM CDT for Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 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: Apr 25, 2011, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2011, 9:59 AM CDT
In force: 16 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 23:29 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 12:00Z, 11.5 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -261 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 420 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 356 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 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 Apr 25, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 25, 1:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 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
Apr 24, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	34 min
Apr 24, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	34 min
Apr 25, 5:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	45 min
Apr 25, 5:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk	25 min
Apr 25, 5:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	28 min
Apr 25, 6:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	5 hr
Apr 25, 7:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	5 hr
Apr 25, 10:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.