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Flash Flood Watch 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 19, 2015, 3:49 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 19, 2015, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2015, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 19, 2015, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2015, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 103 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1352 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 19, 3:42 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:42 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Riley | 36 min |
| Jul 19, 3:46 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 12 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 5:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| Jul 19, 5:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 6:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie, Republic, Riley, Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 7:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 7:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2015Every 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.