Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 29, 1986, 10:40 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 29, 1986, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1986, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1549 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 14.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 29, 7:40 PM CDT, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...WICHITA NOT INCLUDED... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN KANSAS TONIGHT... AT 730 PM...PRECIPITATION CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY ACROSS KANSAS BUR ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME. THUNDERSTORMS HAD INCREASED RAPIDLY OVER PARTS OF OKLAHOMA AND THESE WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF KANSAS BETWEEN 830 AND 900 PM. AT THE PRESENT DIRECTION AND SPEED OF MOVEMENT...THESE STORMS COULD CROSS THE KANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER NEAR ANTHONY AND CALDWELL. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. WILSON
Special weather statement, Sep 29, 7:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 755 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986 ...HEAVY RAINS FELL MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... RAINFALLS OF THREE TO FIVE AND ONE HALF INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS SINCE MIDNIGHT. THREE OR MORE INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER KANSAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JUST SOUTH OF WICHITA TO NEAR AUGUSTA TO NEAR TORONTO RESERVOIR TO NEAR IOLA TO JUST WEST OF PITTSBURG KANSAS. SOME HEAVIER AMOUNTS INCLUDE 5.07 INCHES AT WINFILED... 5.73 INCHES AT ELGIN 5.77 INCHES AT LONGTON IN ELK COUNTY ...5.11 INCHES AT HUMBOLT IN ALLEN COUNTY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT. CREEK AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS IN PROGRESS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA WITH THE HEAVIER RAINFALL...CAUSING FLOODING ON MANY SECONDARY ROADS. MOTORIST SHOULD NOT ENTER WATER COVERING ROADWAYS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT...PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FURTHER WARNINGS AND STATMENTS. ELAND
Special weather statement, Sep 29, 8:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 835 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...WICHITA NOT INCLUDED... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN KANSAS TONIGHT... AT 830 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINS HAD ONCE AGAIN MOVED INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS MAINLY IN HARPER COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL DUMP RAIN OVER ALLREADY SATURATED GROUND. THIS WILL COMPOUND THE RUNOFF PROBLEMS BEING EXPERIENCED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS...IN ADDITION TO DROPPING VERY HEAVY RAINS...WERE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS. RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF KANSAS AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN PARTS OF OKLAHOMA. THIS PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO? THE NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. WILSON
Special weather statement, Sep 29, 9:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 937 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...WICHITA NOT INCLUDED... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN KANSAS TONIGHT... AT 930 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN A NARROW BAND OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE WERE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF AUGUSTA TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA. VERY STRONG WINDS MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE HEAVIEST STORMS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN HALF OF OKLAHOMA.} PRECIPITATON WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WILSON
Special weather statement, Sep 29, 9:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 937 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN KANSAS TONIGHT... AT 930 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN A NARROW BAND OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE WERE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF AUGUSTA TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA. VERY STRONG WINDS MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE HEAVIEST STORMS. OTHER SHOWE~RS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN HALF OF OKLAHOMA. PRECIPITATON WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WILSON
Special weather statement, Sep 29, 10:39 PM CDT, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1038 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN KANSAS TONIGHT... AT 1030 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE LOCATED IN A SMALL CLUSTER OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS 50 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA. VERY STRONG WINDS MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE HEAVIEST STORMS. KEEP IN MIND THAT OVER SOME AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...HEAVY RAINS ARE FALLING ON ALLREADY SATURATED GROUND AND RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE...SOME AT A VERY FAST RATE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN HALF OF OKLAHOMA. THE OVERALL AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR. WILSON
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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.