Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 13, 1991, 12:29 AM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 1991, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1991, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kingman County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 130531 FFWICT KSC095-130730- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1229 AM CDT SAT APR 13 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...KINGMAN COUNTY VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF KINGMAN COUNTY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS. THIS WILL CAUSE CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS TO FLOOD. IN THE CITY OF KINGMAN MANY OF THE STREETS ARE ALREADY UNDERWATER WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO FALL. 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.
What 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, Apr 12, 8:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-130230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 840 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STILL MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. AT 830 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE NEBRASKA BORDER NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA...TO SALINA TO HUTCHINSON...TO PRATT. TRAILING THUNDERSTORMS NOT CONNECTED WITH THIS LINE WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF PRATT INTO OKLAHOMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED EAST OF CONCORDIA AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. OTHER INTENSE STORMS CONTINUED IN NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORM NEAR HUTCHINSON. THE SYSTEM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. *TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 130 COVERS ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 100 AM CDT. LEIVERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 61 min |
| Apr 12, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 55 min |
| Apr 12, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 42 min |
| Apr 12, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 58 min |
| Apr 12, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 60 min |
| Apr 12, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 116 min |
| Apr 12, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 65 min |
| Apr 12, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 68 min |
| Apr 13, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 50 min |
| Apr 13, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 69 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.