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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Wichita, KS

March 20, 201118 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this fire weather watch at Mar 20, 2011, 2:48 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 22, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 20, 2011, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 22, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 21, 2011, 3:55 PM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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 fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Mar 19, 6:28 PM CDT, 20 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 6:28 PM CDT, 20 hours 20 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
Mar 20, 6:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	5 hr

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in Kansas, 2011 Every fire weather watch 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.