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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Topeka, KS

June 7, 201523 counties in Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jun 7, 2015, 4:10 AM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 7, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2015, 4:10 AM CDT (09:10 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 7, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 8, 2015, 2:28 AM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: None

All 23 counties

Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 1554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1214 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 388 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 13.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 7, 4:05 AM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 4:05 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Ottawa	27 min
Jun 7, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	39 min
Jun 7, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	38 min
Jun 7, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	52 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.