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Flood Watch 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at Oct 30, 2013, 4:15 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 30, 2013, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2013, 4:15 AM CDT (09:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 30, 2013, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2013, 8:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Oct 30, 3:36 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 3:36 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 1:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 44 min |
| Oct 30, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 50 min |
| Oct 30, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 37 min |
| Oct 30, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 49 min |
| Oct 30, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 30 min |
| Oct 30, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 22 min |
| Oct 30, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 23 min |
| Oct 30, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 28 min |
| Oct 30, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 34 min |
| Oct 30, 5:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 5 hr |
| Oct 30, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 32 min |
| Oct 30, 6:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 5 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.