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Areal Flood Warning 82, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Jul 3, 2016, 3:42 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 3, 2016, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 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 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 Jul 3, 1:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 1:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 533 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-041045- 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- 533 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS, SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE TODAY INTO THIS EVENING...MAINLY OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS. A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES AND AREA RIVERS IN CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS DUE TO RECENT EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. AREAS OF FOG MAY DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS LATE TONIGHT. VISIBILITIES COULD LOWER TO AROUND 1/2 MILE AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AREAS OF FOG ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY MONDAY MORNING. VISIBILITIES COULD LOWER TO AROUND 1/2 MILE AT TIMES. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA ON TUESDAY...AND AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME. HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION, SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT: HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 7:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Butler, Greenwood, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 7:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 7:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 8:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 39 min |
| Jul 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 52 min |
| Jul 2, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 24 min |
| Jul 2, 8:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno, Rice | 56 min |
| Jul 2, 9:32 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 5 days |
| Jul 2, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jul 2, 9:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 10:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Chase, Cowley, Harper, Marion, Sedgwick and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jul 2, 10:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 44 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Greenwood | 39 min |
| Jul 2, 11:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 38 min |
| Jul 3, 12:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Wilson | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 1:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Sumner | 36 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 44 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 53 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 35 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 57 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 68 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:10 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Marion | 34 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 40 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 4 days |
| Jul 3, 3:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 3 days |
| Jul 3, 3:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 12 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 days |
| Jul 3, 4:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 21 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 21 hr |
| Jul 3, 7:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Greenwood, Woodson | 13 hr |
| Jul 3, 9:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Reno, Sedgwick | 6 days |
| Jul 3, 9:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 10:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 51 hr |
| Jul 3, 10:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 3 days |
| Jul 3, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Labette | 58 min |
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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.