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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Wichita, KS

May 10, 201510 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at May 10, 2015, 4:35 AM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 10, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2015, 4:35 AM CDT (09:35 UTC)
In effect from: May 10, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 10, 2015, 7:19 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Allen County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley 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), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 81 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 881 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 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 May 10, 3:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 3:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 11:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 10:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1037 PM CDT SAT MAY 09 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1035 PM     FLOOD            GREAT BEND              38.36N 98.81W
05/09/2015                   BARTON             KS   PUBLIC

            REPORT OF STREET FLOODING FROM SOCIAL MEDIA.

&&

JMR

Special weather statement, May 9, 10:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1037 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015

KSZ032-047-048-100415-
ELLSWORTH KS-RUSSELL KS-BARTON KS-
1037 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1035 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLAFLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WILSON...CLAFLIN...DORRANCE AND ODIN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS...SHOULD THE RISK FOR
MINOR LOW-LAND FLOODING BECOME MORE IMMINENT.

&&

LAT...LON 3887 9866 3887 9831 3846 9856 3855 9876
TIME...MOT...LOC 0335Z 209DEG 27KT 3858 9862

JAKUB

Local storm report, May 9, 10:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 11:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 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 9, 10:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	6 hr
May 9, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	38 min
May 9, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	30 min
May 9, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	45 min
May 9, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	25 min
May 10, 8:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	33 min
May 10, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	31 min
May 10, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	31 min
May 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	31 min
May 10, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	29 min
May 10, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	31 min
May 10, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	26 min
May 10, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	27 min
May 10, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen	26 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.