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Eventdex · Heavy Rain

MITCHELL

391139 · 39.468, -97.983

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Event typeevent_typeHeavy Rain
NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id391,139
Episode IDepisode_id63,012
Begin UTCbegin_utc2012-06-15T01:30:00+00:00
End UTCend_utc2012-06-15T13:00:00+00:00
StatestateKANSAS
County/zone typecz_typeC
County/zone namecz_nameMITCHELL
Latitudelat39.468
Longitudelon-97.983
End latitudeend_lat39.468
End longitudeend_lon-97.983
Deaths directdeaths_direct0
Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect0
Injuries directinjuries_direct0
Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect0
Damage propertydamage_property0.00K
Damage cropsdamage_crops0.00K
Weather forecast office sourcewfo_sourceCoCoRaHS
Episode narrativeepisode_narrativeThis late Thursday afternoon and evening, primarily between 6 and 10 PM CDT, featured a fairly widespread damaging wind event as a quasi-linear mesoscale convective system (MCS) rolled southeast across nearly the entire six-county area. Although damage was not overly significant and storm reports were limited, automated airport sensors in or near Phillipsburg, Stockton, Smith Center and Beloit measured peak gusts between 58-63 MPH. In addition, a patio roof was torn off in Logan. Hail was not a major issue with these storms, with the largest reported hail only penny size in Burr Oak. Rainfall-wise, much of the area tallied over 1 inch but the highest totals in excess of 3 inches focused across parts of Jewell and Mitchell Counties, including 3.37 inches at Burr Oak. Despite this heavy rain, there were no reports of significant flooding. ||Breaking down event timing, the initial development between 6 PM and 730 PM CDT occurred in two separate areas, with one storm cluster pushing in from the west across Phillips, Rooks and Smith Counties, while other storms built south into Jewell County out of Nebraska. Then between 730 and 9 PM CDT, these separate clusters merged into a nearly solid line, with the main part of the line exiting the local area out of Osborne and Mitchell Counties by 930 PM CDT. Although additional storms lingered over parts of the area past midnight CDT, none were severe. These North Central Kansas storms evolved out of earlier severe storms that developed across southern Nebraska during the afternoon hours along a slow-moving cold front. In the mid and upper levels, synoptic scale forcing was relatively weak, with the area positioned well south of a stronger shortwave trough swinging across southern Canada and the Dakotas. However, with surface dewpoints averaging well into the 60s F, convective instability was quite high with early evening mixed-layer CAPE climbing to at least 2000-3000 J/kg. On the other hand, 0-6 kilometer vertical wind shear was fairly weak at only around 30 knots, which allowed initially slow-moving storms to congeal into a line and surge southeast along strong outflow. Locally heavy rainfall was enhanced by precipitable water values averaging 1.4 to 1.8 inches.
Event narrativeevent_narrativeRainfall of 3.15 inches over the past 24 hours. The rain began during the evening on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
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