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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS

March 29, 2017Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this areal flood warning at Mar 29, 2017, 1:37 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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: Mar 29, 2017, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2017, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 6 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 18:40 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 253 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 429 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 29, 12:45 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 12:45 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 29, 9:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 29, 8:16 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
816 AM CDT WED MAR 29 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 AM     FLOOD            6 N PEABODY             38.25N 97.12W
03/29/2017                   MARION             KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER OVER THE ROADWAY ON NIGHTHAWK ROAD FROM 120TH TO
            130TH STREET.

&&

METZGER

Local storm report, Mar 29, 8:23 AM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
823 AM CDT WED MAR 29 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 AM     FLOOD            4 NNW MARION            38.41N 97.04W
03/29/2017                   MARION             KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER OVER THE ROAD WAY AT REMMINTON AND 230TH STREET.

&&

METZGER

Local storm report, Mar 29, 8:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
825 AM CDT WED MAR 29 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 AM     FLOOD            1 WSW PEABODY           38.17N 97.12W
03/29/2017                   MARION             KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER OVER THE BRIDGE ON NIGHTHAWK ROAD IN PEABODY, ROAD
            IS CLOSED. PEABODY CITY PARK NOW FLOODED.

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METZGER

Local storm report, Mar 29, 10:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 29, 10:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 29, 11:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 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
Mar 29, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	58 min
Mar 29, 2:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Allen, Neosho	25 min
Mar 29, 4:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	34 hr
Mar 29, 4:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	42 hr
Mar 29, 5:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	8 hr
Mar 29, 5:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner	8 hr
Mar 29, 8:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	6 hr
Mar 29, 8:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	42 hr
Mar 29, 8:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase	59 hr
Mar 29, 8:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Chase, Lyon	3 days
Mar 29, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	45 hr
Mar 29, 8:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	3 days
Mar 29, 8:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	37 hr
Mar 29, 8:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	4 days
Mar 29, 9:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	53 hr
Mar 29, 9:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	3 days
Mar 29, 9:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	4 days
Mar 29, 2:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	5 hr
Mar 29, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	34 min

Nearby

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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.