Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1989, 10:09 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1989, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1989, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 130309
FFWICT
KSC019-035-125-130615-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1009 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
...CHAUTAUQUA...EASTERN COWLEY...MONTGOMERY
HEAVY RAINS HAVE FALLEN OVER AN ALREADY SATURATED AREA OF SOUTHERN
KANSAS FROM EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY TO NEAR COFFEYVILLE.
COWLEY COUNTY ROAD SIX EAST OF K-15 HAS ALREADY BEEN CLOSED DUE TO
FLOODING AND MINOR STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN INDEPENDENCE.
ALSO FLOODING IS OCCURRING ALONG BEAVER CREEK IN EASTERN COWLEY
COUNTY.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES... DIPS... OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING
WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE.
BURKEWhat 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, Jun 12, 5:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-121440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 535 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GISTY WINDS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE OR 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA... AT 527 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS IN AN AREA 35 MILES WIDE FROM 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. THESE THUNDERSTROMS APPEAR TO BE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 700 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 AT 655PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED FROM ARKANSAS CITY KANSAS TO NEAR SOUTHAHVEN KANSAS WHICH IS ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA. THESE THUNDER- STORMS WERE MOVIMG EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AT 655 PM ARKANSAS CITY KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL IN @ARKANSAS CITY. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 AT 730PM THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WERE LOCATED 50 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF HOWARD KANSAS...IN AN AREA 15 MILES WIDE FROM NEAR ARKANSAS CITY KANSAS TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA OR JUST SOUTH OF ANTHONY KANSAS...AND JUST SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS 70 MILES WIDE AND CENTERED FROM NEAR CHANUTE TO WINFIELD TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA TO ALVA OKLAHOMA TO GAGE OKLAHOMA. THE STUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 AT 730 PM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED 1.10 INCHES OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES 7 MILES EAST OF CAMBRIDGE OR 40 SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA. LR
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 806 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS... AT 800 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...MANY WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME WITH SMALL HAIL...WAS IN SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THIS LINE IS FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE...IN SOUTHERN ELK COUNTY... SOUTHWEST TO ARKANSAS CITY...THEN SOUTHWEST INTO OKLAHOMA BEFORE CURVING BACK INTO KANSAS 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SEVERAL OF THESE STORMS IN THIS LINE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. BURKE
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:37 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130335-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
935 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 473 CONTINUES FOR THE SOUTHERN
COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM TUESDAY
MORNING...
AT 930 PM THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED NEAR INDEPENDENCE KANSAS...NEAR WINFIELD
AND 30 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA. THESE TH{UNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST
AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS 80 MILES
WIDE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF PITTSBURG NEAR FORT SCOTT TO CHANUTE
TO ARKANSAS CITY KANSAS TO GAGE OKLAHOMA.
ELANDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 10:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 3 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.