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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Wichita, KS

May 16, 20158 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at May 16, 2015, 2:11 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 16, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2015, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
In effect from: May 16, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 16, 2015, 10:54 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 1786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 16, 5:41 AM CDT, 8 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 5:41 AM CDT, 8 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 4:19 AM CDT, 9 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 16, 12:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 12:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1256 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

KSZ067-083-161830-
SEDGWICK KS-RENO KS-
1256 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1252 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GODDARD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  45 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WICHITA...PARK CITY...VALLEY CENTER...GODDARD...MAIZE...CHENEY...
  COLWICH...GARDEN PLAIN...MOUNT HOPE...KECHI...ANDALE...BENTLEY...
  WEST WICHITA...WICHITA EISENHOWER NATIONAL AIRPORT AND LAKE AFTON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3751 9755 3760 9778 3796 9772 3796 9770
      3791 9770 3791 9755 3783 9724
TIME...MOT...LOC 1752Z 207DEG 37KT 3764 9762

RITZMAN

Special weather statement, May 16, 2:09 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
209 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

KSZ082-091-161945-
HARPER KS-KINGMAN KS-
209 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 207 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR
  SHARON TO AMORITA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KINGMAN...ANTHONY...HARPER...ATTICA...ZENDA...SPIVEY...BLUFF
  CITY...CLEVELAND...DANVILLE...WALDRON...FREEPORT...CRYSTAL
  SPRINGS...RAGO...RUNNYMEDE AND CORWIN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3700 9835 3738 9835 3739 9846 3773 9798
      3773 9797 3719 9780 3700 9780
TIME...MOT...LOC 1907Z 233DEG 42KT 3731 9845 3693 9829

RITZMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 3:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	37 min
May 16, 5:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno	46 min
May 16, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	30 min
May 16, 12:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	25 min
May 16, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	34 min
May 16, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper, Kingman	36 min
May 16, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	30 min
May 16, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	30 min
May 16, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	34 min
May 16, 3:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	17 hr
May 16, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	22 min
May 16, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	29 min
May 16, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Chase	17 min
May 16, 4:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	5 hr
May 16, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	24 min
May 16, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Greenwood	33 min
May 16, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	21 min
May 16, 6:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sumner	6 hr
May 16, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	12 min
May 16, 6:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper, Kingman	34 min

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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.