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Areal Flood Warning 14, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Apr 29, 2012, 9:16 AM CDT for Chautauqua 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
- Apr 29, 2012, 9:16 AM CDT (14:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2012, 1:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Montgomery County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 1600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 29, 6:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 6:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 3:53 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 353 AM CDT SUN APR 29 2012 KSZ099-100-290930- LABETTE-MONTGOMERY- 353 AM CDT SUN APR 29 2012 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LABETTE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES... AT 352 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF LIBERTY...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. && LAT...LON 3738 9583 3738 9529 3700 9550 3700 9586 TIME...MOT...LOC 0854Z 220DEG 37KT 3717 9568 BILLINGS
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 4:13 AM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
413 AM CDT SUN APR 29 2012
KSZ100-290945-
LABETTE-
413 AM CDT SUN APR 29 2012
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LABETTE COUNTY...
AT 411 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALTAMONT...OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF PARSONS...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3705 9532 3720 9543 3738 9507 3737 9507
3715 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 0913Z 241DEG 44KT 3717 9527
BILLINGSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 1:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 3:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 4:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 32 min |
Nearby
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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.