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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood watch at Jul 19, 2015, 3:57 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 19, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2015, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 19, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2015, 3:21 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 3:58 PM CDT, 23 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 4:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Smith | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 4:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 50 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.