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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 14, 2020, 3:22 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 14, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2020, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 14, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2020, 6:24 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Jul 14, 3:10 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:10 PM CDT, 12 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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| Jul 14, 2:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 22 min |
| Jul 14, 2:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 2:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 3:05 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 8 more | 17 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 3:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Russell | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno, Rice | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 4:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, McPherson | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 9:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 11 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.