Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1989, 7:22 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1989, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1989, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 140022
FFWICT
KSC191-140430-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
722 PM CDT THU JUL 13 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
SOUTHERN SUMNER
IN SOUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160...RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OVER THREE INCHES HAVE ALREADY ACCUMULATED IN SOME AREAS. WITH
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING IN THE AREA...WITH LITTLE
MOVEMENT...CONDITIONS WILL ONLY WORSEN. SIGNIFICANT RISES CAN BE
EXPECTED ON THE CHIKASKIA RIVER.
FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY RESULT FROM THE HEAVY RAIN THAT HAS
FALLEN OVER THE WARNING AREA. STAY AWAY FROM AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE
TO FLOODING LIKE SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES.
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, Jul 13, 3:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
KSZ-009-012-132330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 349 PM CDT THU JUL 13 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 330 THIS AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST OF THESE WERE FROM JUST SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA...NEAR ANTHONY. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...SOME HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. LITTLE IF ANY MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF PRECIPITATION THAT WAS ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON TO PRATT TO ARKANSAS CITY. AND...NEW SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STORMS HAD DEVELOPED SINCE 230 PM FROM JUST EAST OF WICHITA TO NEAR COFFEYVILLE. WILSON
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
KSZ-009-012-017-132330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 536 PM CDT THU JUL 13 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 525 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN THE SOUTH PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THEY WERE IN A 25 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF PRATT TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ARKANSAS CITY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WITH THESE THUDERSTORMS ACROSS HARPER AND SOUTH SUMNER COUNTIES COULD EXCEED TWO (2) INCHES THIS EVENING AND WILL LIKLEY CAUSE SOME LOCAL AREAS OF FLOODING. SOME SMALL HAIL MAY FALL FROM THESE STORMS ALSO. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF PRECIPITATION THAT WAS RSOUTH OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF PRATT TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA TO 40 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY. THEY EXTENDED INTO NORTH OKLAHOMA. RYAN
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:36 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
KSZ-009-012-017-140040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 636 PM CDT THU JUL 13 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING IN THE SOUTH PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 630 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN THE SOUTH PART OF SOOTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE FROM NEAR MEDICINE LODGE...ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA...TO THE OKLAHOMA STATE LINE JUST WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN...AND THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR LOCAL AREAS OF FLOODING WOULD BE IN HARPER COUNTY AND THE SOUTH HALF OF SUMNER COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN THOSE AREAS MAY EXCEED THREE (3) INCHES THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF PRECIPITATION THAT WAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF PRATT TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA TO 20 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY. THEY EXTENDED INTO NORTH OKLAHOMA. RYAN
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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.