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Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS

April 4, 2012Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Apr 4, 2012, 6:38 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 112 min. 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 4, 2012, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
112 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2012-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2012-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 5:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTMarion49 min
Apr 4, 8:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTSedgwick52 min
Apr 4, 3:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChase29 min
Apr 4, 6:43 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTKingman2 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.