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River Flood Warning 55, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
- 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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 3:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 3:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 4:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner | 9 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 4:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 4:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 4:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 8 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 5:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 5:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 6:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette, Neosho, Wilson | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 7:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 12 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Elk | 24 hr |
| Aug 8, 11:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 28 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 14 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 5 days |
| Aug 8, 1:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 27 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.