Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

Aug 19, 1989, 11:22 PM CDT (04:22 UTC)

Expired

Aug 20, 1989, 1:47 AM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cowley County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1122 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
      COWLEY...

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      SUMNER...

AT 1120 PM CDT...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL HAVE BEEN OCCURRING THROUGHOUT SUMNER AND COWLEY COUNTIES
FOR SEVERAL HOURS. RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF OVER TWO INCHES PER HOUR
ARE FALLING OVER PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES. THE GROUND IS SATURATED
AND MOST CREEKS ARE NEAR BANKFULL.

 RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS IN THE WARNING AREA WILL LIKELY FLOOD
STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. BE CAREFUL DRIVING AND DON/T TRY TO
CROSS WATER RUSHING OVER ROADS.

STEADHAM

In the hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
620 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1989

AT 618 AM...THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN HAVE DEVELOPED SINCE 6:00 PM.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
IN THE SOUTHERN 2 ROWS OF COUNTIES FROM WINFIELD EAST TO THE STATE
LINE OF MISSOURI.

VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS...
PLUS THE SLOW EASTWARD MOVEMENT MAY CAUSE SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING
AS WELL AS STREET FL,OODING.  PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN VERY WATCHFUL
OF RISING WATER THE NEXT TWO HOURS.

LR

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
835 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1989

AT 830 AM...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE 30 MILES
SOUTH OF WICHITA AT WINFIELD TO THE COFFEYVILLE AREA.  OTHER LIGHT
RAIN WAS TO THE SOUTH OF LINE FROM THE MEDICINE LODGE AREA OR
30 MILES SOUTH OF PRATT EASTWARD TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF CHANUTE TO
THE PITTSBURG AREA.

VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS...
PLUS THE SLOW EASTWARD MOVEMENT MAY CAUSE SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING
AS WELL AS STREET FLOODING.  PERSONS SHOULD GET THEMSELVE AND  CATTLE
AND EQUIPMENT TO HIGHER GROUND IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREA.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 5 TO x10 MPH.
LR

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

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.