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Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Apr 27, 2016, 4:46 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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
- Apr 27, 2016, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2016, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Apr 27, 3:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 3:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 7:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 7:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harper | 12 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 12 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 8:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 8:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Wilson | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 9:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 10:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 10:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 10:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 10:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 12 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 4:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 7:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Allen | 29 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 19 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 49 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 62 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 3 days |
| Apr 27, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 4 days |
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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.