Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1990, 1:37 AM CDT for Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1990, 1:37 AM CDT (06:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1990, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Woodson 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 5742 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.7
- Supercell composite
- 28.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 090637
FFWICT
KSC207-091045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
137 AM CDT SAT JUN 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
WOODSON
AT 130 AM CDT...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL IN WOODSON COUNTY NEAR
YATES CENTER. HIGHWAY 75 6 MILES NORTH OF YATES CENTER WAS COVERED
WITH 12 TO 14 INCHES OF WATER...WITH MINOR STREET FLOODING IN YATES
CENTER.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST.
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.
ROSNERWhat 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 8, 10:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
KSZ009-012-014-017-090400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1010 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 422 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT... AT 1009 PM CDT...THERE WERE NO WARNINGS IN EFFECT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST KANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM PERSISTED ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST KANSAS. THESE WERE FROM JUST SOUTH OF TOPEKA TO EMPORIA TO WICHITA THEN SOUTHWEST TO NEAR MEDICINE LODGE. THE NORTHERN PART OF THE PRECIPITATION AREA WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH WHILE THE SOUTHERN PZART WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. WILSON
Local storm report, Jun 8, 11:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1117 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
TIME (CDT) EVENT - SEVERE WEATHER JUN 8 1990 CENTRAL AND EAST KANSAS.
703 PM BUTLER CO. - 1 INCH HAIL IN TOWANDA (20 NE ICT)
757 PM SEDGWICK CO. - 1 1/4 INCH HAIL MC CONNELL AFB BASE
HOUSING AREA.
805 PM SEDGWICK/BUTLER - 4 INCH HAIL 67TH STREET NORTH
CO. LINE
810 PM BUTLER CO. - GOLF BALL HAIL AT ROSE HILL (14 SE ICT)
815 PM SEDGWICK CO. - 2 INCH HAIL MC CONNELL AFB.
815 PM GREENWOOD CO. - SUBSTANTIAL WIND DAMAGE IN THE CITY OF
MADISON (19 S EMP)
825 PM SEDGWICK CO. - 1 1/2 INCH HAIL MC CONNELL AFB.
830 PM SEDGWICK CO. - 2 1/2 INCH HAIL MC CONNELL AFB.
835 PM BUTLER CO. - GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL JUST SOUTH OF
ROSE HILL (14 SE ICT)
836 PM BUTLER CO. - NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS
839 PM BUTLER CO. - GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL (APPROX. 17 SE ICT)
1015 PM HARPER CO. - GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN HARPER (47 SW ICT)
WILSONSpecial weather statement, Jun 8, 11:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
KSZ009-012-014-017-090530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1140 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 AT 1139 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTED IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF KANSAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF EMPORIA AND 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. PEOPLE IN THE WICHITA AREA SHOULD EXPECT THESE STORMS TO PASS THROUGH BEFORE 1230 AM. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ASSOCIATED WITH ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS REGION. SYSTEM MOVEMENT WAS TO TAHE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. LEIVERS WILSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.