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Flood Watch 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at Apr 28, 2025, 3:02 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 29, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2025, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 29, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2025, 3:11 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 527 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 549 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Apr 28, 12:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 12:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 40 min |
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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.