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River Flood Warning 55, NWS Wichita, KS

August 8, 2013Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this river flood warning at Aug 8, 2013, 2:28 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 8, 2013, 8:59 PM CDT. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2013, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 8, 2013, 8:59 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 9, 2013, 10:17 PM CDT
In force
25 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity
Minor

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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 river

Written for the forecast point Little Arkansas River near Sedgwick (SEDK1). The gauge peaked at 23.21 ft at Aug 10, 2013, 10:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
20 ft
Minor stage
22 ft
Moderate stage
25 ft
Major stage
26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07144100, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Aug 8, 1:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 1:37 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
137 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-091845-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
137 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON
AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS MAINLY SOUTHEAST KANSAS. ANY STORMS THAT
DEVELOP MAY PRODUCE ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.
THE ISOLATED HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL LOCALIZED FLOODING.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE MORE LIKELY LATE TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE ADDITIONAL FLOOD
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. HOWEVER ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS ARE
POSSIBLE...MAINLY NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER.

SEVERAL RIVER AND COUNTY FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR MAINLY
SOUTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SEE THE LATEST
WARNINGS AND STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ONGOING FRIDAY ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. FLOOD PRODUCING RAIN IS THE PRIMARY
THREAT.

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO PRIMARILY CENTRAL KANSAS LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT. STORMS WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE AND SPREAD OVER
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS SUNDAY NIGHT. SCATTERED TO
NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE OVER THE REGION FOR MOST OF
THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK. THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR
TONIGHT...HOWEVER REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OR RAINFALL
GREATER THAN 1.5 INCHES WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

ES/HOWERTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 2:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarper, Kingman24 min
Aug 8, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Sumner42 min
Aug 8, 3:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTKingman, Reno66 min
Aug 8, 3:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner57 min
Aug 8, 3:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Sumner35 min
Aug 8, 3:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTCowley64 min
Aug 8, 4:00 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTHarper, Sedgwick, Sumner9 hr
Aug 8, 4:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner57 min
Aug 8, 4:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler58 min
Aug 8, 4:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarvey, Reno, Sedgwick37 min
Aug 8, 4:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Elk55 min
Aug 8, 4:43 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTKingman, Reno8 hr
Aug 8, 5:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTHarvey, Marion59 min
Aug 8, 5:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTMontgomery, Wilson45 min
Aug 8, 5:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTButler, Chase, Greenwood55 min
Aug 8, 6:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLabette, Neosho, Wilson67 min
Aug 8, 7:03 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTSedgwick50 hr
Aug 8, 7:51 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTChautauqua6 hr
Aug 8, 8:59 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTKingman12 hr
Aug 8, 10:15 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTElk24 hr
Aug 8, 11:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTButler28 hr
Aug 8, 12:35 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTSumner14 hr
Aug 8, 12:57 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTKingman, Reno5 days
Aug 8, 1:41 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTWilson7 hr
Aug 8, 4:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua24 min
Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua32 min
Aug 8, 5:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua26 min
Aug 8, 5:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTChautauqua27 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2013Every river flood warning in 2013

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.