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Areal Flood Warning 67, NWS Wichita, KS

July 2, 2016Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Jul 2, 2016, 10:16 AM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2016, 10:16 AM CDT (15:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -294 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 391 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jul 2, 6:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 6:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 3:42 AM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
342 AM CDT SAT JUL 2 2016

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-030845-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
342 AM CDT SAT JUL 2 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS,
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES WILL
TRACK SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS MAINLY SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN
KANSAS THIS MORNING. LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING IS
POSSIBLE.

SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP LATER
THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. ISOLATED
WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH AND HAIL OF NICKEL SIZE WILL BE
POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED
TO MERGE INTO A LARGER STORM COMPLEX TONIGHT...TRACKING EAST
SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL RATES...FLASH FLOODING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL
BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM COMPLEX. PLEASE REFER TO THE FLASH
FLOOD WATCH FOR MORE DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT...MAINLY
EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY
WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO CLIMB ABOVE NORMAL TOWARD MID TO LATE
NEXT WEEK. COMBINED WITH MODERATE TO HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS...HEAT
INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES WILL BE QUITE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH
OF THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
HOWEVER...REPORTS OF MEASURED RAINFALL AMOUNTS GREATER THAN 1 INCH
WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION, SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT:
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 7:12 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 9:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 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 2, 1:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	9 hr
Jul 2, 2:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	8 days
Jul 2, 2:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ICT	Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 17 more	44 hr
Jul 2, 2:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson	7 hr
Jul 2, 3:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	28 min
Jul 2, 3:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	6 hr
Jul 2, 4:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	47 min
Jul 2, 9:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	6 days
Jul 2, 10:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson	48 hr
Jul 2, 10:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	4 days
Jul 2, 10:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey	5 days
Jul 2, 10:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson	44 hr
Jul 2, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	24 min
Jul 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	61 min
Jul 2, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	30 min
Jul 2, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	26 min
Jul 2, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	32 min
Jul 2, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	65 min
Jul 2, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	59 min
Jul 2, 5:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick	7 hr
Jul 2, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	60 min
Jul 2, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	59 min
Jul 2, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	36 min
Jul 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson, Woodson	49 min
Jul 2, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	37 min
Jul 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	7 hr
Jul 2, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	54 min
Jul 2, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	33 min
Jul 2, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	38 min
Jul 2, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton	52 min
Jul 2, 6:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	58 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2016 Every areal flood warning in 2016

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.