Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Watches in 2020
Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Apr 22, 2020, 3:40 AM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 22, 2020, 6:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2020, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 22, 2020, 6:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2020, 8:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 22, 3:09 AM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 3:09 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 6:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 6:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 11:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 25 min |
| Apr 22, 2:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua | 35 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.