Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 2, 2013, 4:14 AM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2013, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 days
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
All 26 counties
Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood 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 flood watch went out at Aug 2, 3:37 AM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 3:37 AM CDT, 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 8:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley, Elk | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 8:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 48 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 9:25 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 10:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 24 hr |
Nearby
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.