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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Oct 9, 2014, 2:07 PM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 9, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 9, 2014, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 9, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2014, 7:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Allen County, KS, Chautauqua 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), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
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 Oct 9, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 3:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 9 hr |
| Oct 9, 4:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 9 hr |
| Oct 9, 4:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 42 min |
| Oct 9, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 38 min |
| Oct 9, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.