Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 5, 2013, 3:55 AM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 5, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2013, 3:55 AM CDT (08:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 5, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2013, 11:56 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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.