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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Wichita, KS

July 25, 202011 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 25, 2020, 2:38 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 26, 2020, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 2020, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 26, 2020, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 27, 2020, 4:02 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Flood severity
None

Counties Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2020-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2020-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-279 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1374 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.