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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Wichita, KS

May 23, 2019Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at May 23, 2019, 11:30 AM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2019, 11:30 AM CDT (16:30 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity: None

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 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 flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at May 23, 6:14 AM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 6:14 AM CDT, 5 hours 16 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
May 22, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho	54 min
May 22, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	43 min
May 22, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	52 min
May 22, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley, Elk	38 min
May 22, 11:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk, Woodson	47 min
May 23, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	37 min
May 23, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	33 min
May 23, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	22 min
May 23, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	32 min
May 23, 3:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	20 min
May 23, 3:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	5 hr
May 23, 6:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	4 hr
May 23, 8:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	65 hr
May 23, 8:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	5 days
May 23, 10:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	24 hr
May 23, 10:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	13 hr
May 23, 11:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	4 days
May 23, 3:08 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	7 hr
May 23, 3:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	71 hr
May 23, 3:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	7 hr
May 23, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	26 min
May 23, 4:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ICT	Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Lincoln, Russell and 2 more	72 hr
May 23, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	52 min
May 23, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	49 min
May 23, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	57 min
May 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	30 min
May 23, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	29 min
May 23, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	43 min
May 23, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	36 min
May 23, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, Marion	31 min
May 23, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	32 min
May 23, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline	45 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.