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Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS Wichita, KS

July 19, 2015Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 19, 2015, 3:12 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas. It took effect at Jul 19, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2015, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 19, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 20, 2015, 3:40 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 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

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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 Jul 19, 2:32 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:32 PM CDT, 40 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
Jul 18, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	26 min
Jul 18, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	50 min
Jul 18, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	33 min
Jul 18, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	44 min
Jul 18, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	35 min
Jul 19, 2:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	27 min
Jul 19, 3:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	27 min
Jul 19, 4:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	33 min
Jul 19, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	24 min
Jul 19, 4:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Saline	47 min
Jul 19, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	34 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2015 Every flash flood watch in 2015

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.