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Areal Flood Warning 49, NWS Wichita, KS

May 28, 2015Reno County, Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at May 28, 2015, 9:56 AM CDT for Reno County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2015, 9:56 AM CDT (14:56 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2015, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:58 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 2337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 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 areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at May 28, 6:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 6:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	62 min
May 27, 9:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	4 hr
May 27, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	32 min
May 27, 10:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	4 hr
May 27, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	30 min
May 27, 11:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	3 hr
May 28, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	37 min
May 28, 12:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	4 hr
May 28, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	27 min
May 28, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	31 min
May 28, 1:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	30 min
May 28, 1:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	25 min
May 28, 1:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	23 min
May 28, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	26 min
May 28, 2:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	9 hr
May 28, 2:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	9 hr
May 28, 2:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	26 min
May 28, 3:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick	8 hr
May 28, 3:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	63 hr
May 28, 4:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	8 hr
May 28, 10:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	27 min
May 28, 10:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	4 hr
May 28, 10:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	4 hr
May 28, 11:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	4 hr
May 28, 2:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	4 hr
May 28, 6:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	18 hr

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.