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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Wichita, KS

September 9, 1989Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 1989, 1:20 AM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 1989, 1:20 AM CDT (06:20 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1989, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Butler County, KS, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1989-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 794 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1989-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 457 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
794 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
457 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
592 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
19.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley55 min
Sep 8, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman65 min
Sep 8, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick22 min
Sep 8, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick59 min
Sep 8, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Reno55 min
Sep 8, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler58 min
Sep 8, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner52 min
Sep 8, 10:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick4 hr
Sep 9, 2:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989

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.