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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS

March 29, 2012Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Mar 29, 2012, 11:17 PM CDT for Butler 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: Mar 29, 2012, 11:17 PM CDT (04:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2012, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Butler County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 1500 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 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 Mar 29, 10:58 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 10:58 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 29, 9:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
947 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0900 PM     HAIL             5 WSW BEL AIRE          37.75N 97.36W
03/29/2012  M2.50 INCH       SEDGWICK           KS   STORM CHASER

            HAIL RANGING FROM ONE INCH TO TENNIS BALL NEAR 34TH AND
            AMIDON

&&

MWM

Local storm report, Mar 29, 9:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
956 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0956 PM     HAIL             AUGUSTA                 37.69N 96.98W
03/29/2012  E1.00 INCH       BUTLER             KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

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SGS

Special weather statement, Mar 29, 9:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
959 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012

KSZ083-300330-
SEDGWICK-
959 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY...

AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WICHITA MID CONTINENT AIRPORT...OR 6 MILES
WEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3783 9715 3756 9716 3756 9757 3775 9755
TIME...MOT...LOC 0259Z 267DEG 15KT 3766 9743

KETCHAM

Local storm report, Mar 29, 10:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1006 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1003 PM     FLOOD            DOWNTOWN WICHITA        37.69N 97.34W
03/29/2012                   SEDGWICK           KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED WATER COVERING OLIVER BETWEEN
            21ST AND 29TH.

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SGS

Local storm report, Mar 29, 10:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1008 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1001 PM     TSTM WND GST     JABARA AIRPORT          37.75N 97.22W
03/29/2012  M58 MPH          SEDGWICK           KS   ASOS

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HOWERTON

Local storm report, Mar 29, 10:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1014 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1003 PM     FLOOD            2 NE DOWNTOWN WICHITA   37.71N 97.32W
03/29/2012                   SEDGWICK           KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED WATER COVERING OLIVER BETWEEN
            21ST AND 29TH.

&&

SGS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	65 min
Mar 29, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	58 min
Mar 29, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	60 min
Mar 29, 8:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	5 hr
Mar 29, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	63 min
Mar 29, 9:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	36 min
Mar 29, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	59 min
Mar 29, 9:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	31 min
Mar 29, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	44 min
Mar 30, 3:58 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice, Russell	6 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2012 Every areal flood warning in 2012

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.