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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Wichita, KS

September 1, 20148 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Sep 1, 2014, 3:39 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Sep 1, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 1, 2014, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 1, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Sep 2, 2014, 9:37 AM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Allen County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Sep 1, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 1, 10:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 1, 9:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 1, 10:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 1, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
147 PM CDT MON SEP 01 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1230 PM     HEAVY RAIN       5 N LITTLE RIVER        38.47N 98.01W
09/01/2014  M5.25 INCH       RICE               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

1230 PM     HEAVY RAIN       1 N LITTLE RIVER        38.42N 98.02W
09/01/2014  M3.80 INCH       RICE               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 31, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice	47 min
Aug 31, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	31 min
Aug 31, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	33 min
Aug 31, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	31 min
Aug 31, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	34 min
Aug 31, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	28 min
Aug 31, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	26 min
Aug 31, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	53 min
Aug 31, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	26 min
Aug 31, 10:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	29 min
Aug 31, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	32 min
Aug 31, 10:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	33 min
Aug 31, 11:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	8 hr
Aug 31, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	24 min
Aug 31, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	32 min
Aug 31, 11:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	30 min
Aug 31, 11:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	8 hr
Aug 31, 11:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	8 hr
Aug 31, 11:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	8 hr
Sep 1, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	28 min
Sep 1, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	27 min
Sep 1, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	36 min
Sep 1, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	29 min
Sep 1, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Harvey, McPherson, Marion	40 min
Sep 1, 12:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	36 min
Sep 1, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	28 min
Sep 1, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	35 min
Sep 1, 1:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	30 min
Sep 1, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	29 min
Sep 1, 1:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson	6 hr
Sep 1, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	35 min
Sep 1, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	29 min
Sep 1, 2:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	6 hr
Sep 1, 2:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	28 min
Sep 1, 4:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	45 hr
Sep 1, 4:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	11 hr
Sep 1, 7:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	27 hr
Sep 1, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	25 min
Sep 1, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	36 min
Sep 1, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	43 min
Sep 1, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	42 min
Sep 1, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	52 min
Sep 1, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	50 min
Sep 1, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	50 min
Sep 1, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	49 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.