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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 30, 2020, 9:50 AM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 30, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2020, 9:50 AM CDT (14:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 30, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2020, 3:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 Jul 30, 6:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 6:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 37 min |
| Jul 29, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 62 min |
| Jul 29, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Jul 29, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Jul 29, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 28 min |
| Jul 29, 9:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Rice | 37 min |
| Jul 29, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Jul 29, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 56 min |
| Jul 29, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Jul 29, 10:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 35 min |
| Jul 29, 11:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper | 24 min |
| Jul 29, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 30 min |
| Jul 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 26 min |
| Jul 30, 1:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton, Russell | 44 min |
| Jul 30, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 65 min |
| Jul 30, 2:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 45 min |
| Jul 30, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 62 min |
| Jul 30, 2:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 64 min |
| Jul 30, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 53 min |
| Jul 30, 3:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 50 min |
| Jul 30, 3:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 65 min |
| Jul 30, 3:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 51 min |
| Jul 30, 4:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 38 min |
| Jul 30, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 55 min |
| Jul 30, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Elk | 33 min |
| Jul 30, 6:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 18 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.