Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2014
Flood Watch 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at Jun 10, 2014, 3:31 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 11, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2014, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 11, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Jun 10, 3:13 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:13 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 10:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1000 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-111500- 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- 1000 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE FLOOD WARNINGS FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL AREAS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND FOR MOST OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS ON THURSDAY. THE PRIMARY THREATS WOULD BE WINDS AROUND 60 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL LIKELY CAUSE FURTHER FLOODING. THE NEXT CHANCES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. THE HAIL MAY BE QUITE LARGE ALONG WITH WINDS AROUND 70 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. YOU SHOULD LISTEN CLOSELY FOR UPCOMING FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS ISSUED TOWARD THE END OF THE WORK-WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP JMC/BILLINGS WRIGHT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 7:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 12 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:56 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 27 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:58 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 26 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 48 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell, Saline | 65 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 12 hr |
| Jun 10, 7:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 7:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:06 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 16 hr |
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.