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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS

May 25, 2012Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at May 25, 2012, 11:19 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2012, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2012, 7:18 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

552 
WGUS43 KICT 260419
FLWICT

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1119 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

KSC167-261315-
/O.NEW.KICT.FA.W.0021.120526T0419Z-120526T1315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
1119 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 815 AM CDT SATURDAY

* AT 1115 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS
  WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE         
  FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA WITH ADDITIONAL RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS     
  MOVING INTO AREA...AND TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED WATER BEGINNING
  TO POOL ON COUNTY ROADS. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3913 9904 3913 9848 3894 9849 3870 9884
      3870 9904

$$

PEARCE

1 follow-up statement

891 
WGUS83 KICT 261218
FLSICT

FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
718 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012

KSC167-261228-
/O.CAN.KICT.FA.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120526T1315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RUSSELL KS-
718 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012

...THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR RUSSELL COUNTY...

EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...
PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 3913 9904 3913 9848 3894 9849 3870 9884
      3870 9904

$$

ES

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	46 min
May 25, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	62 min
May 25, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ICT	Russell	44 min
May 25, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	47 min
May 25, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	46 min
May 25, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	31 min
May 25, 11:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	52 min
May 25, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	8 min
May 26, 4:20 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice, Russell	16 hr

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.