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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1991, 10:37 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1991, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1991, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenwood County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1006 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 270338 FFWICT KSC073-270645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1037 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...GREENWOOD COUNTY AT 1030 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTY. COMBINED WITH THE RAIN THAT HAS ALREADY FALLEN...THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY PRODUCE RAPID FLOODING OF STREAMS AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AREAS DOWNSTREAM FROM WHERE THE RAIN HAS FALLEN ARE ALSO AT RISK. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD 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. HEDGES
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, May 26, 8:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
KSZ017-270215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 813 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 399 UNTIL 2 AM FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS... NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS...HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS HIGH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING OVER MANY PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...AND WILL MOVE EASTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS DURING THE EVENING. S TAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. HEDGES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 42 min |
| May 26, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 63 min |
| May 26, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 64 min |
| May 26, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 69 min |
| May 26, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Marion | 7 min |
| May 26, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| May 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 64 min |
| May 26, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 63 min |
| May 26, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 59 min |
| May 26, 9:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase | 55 min |
| May 26, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 42 min |
| May 27, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 55 min |
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.