Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1992, 11:50 AM CDT for Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1992, 11:50 AM CDT (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1910 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 231702 COR FFWICT KSC037-232100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1150 AM CDT THU JUL 23 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...CRAWFORD COUNTY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER...AND UPSTREAM FROM CRAWFORD COUNTY. AT 1145 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF PITTSBURG...TO JUST NORTH OF CHANUTE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR...WHICH WILL WILL BRING THEM ACROSS CRAWFORD COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 2 HOURS. FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN MANY AREAS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY...AND MANY ROADS ARE UNDERWATER. 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...P DIPS... OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE... ON FOOT. ...HEAVY RAIN FALLING UPSTREAM FROM CRAWFORD...NOT CHEROKEE COUNTY... 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, Jul 23, 6:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-231240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 633 AM CDT THU JUL 23 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 625 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTAINED IN A 25 MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDING FROM NEAR SALINA...TO JOPLIN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE...AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PITTSBURG. THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF DRIVING IN THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING...BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADS. IF POSSIBLE...REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PASSED. VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS...AND LIGHTNING IS A THUNDERSTORMR'S GREATEST KILLER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND AREAL COVERAGE HAD DECREASED DURING THE PAST HOUR. HEDGES
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:39 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-240500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 1140 AM CDT THU JUL 23 1992 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS: BUTLER HARPER MARION SUMNER CHASE HARVEY RENO COWLEY KINGMAN SEDGWICK AND IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS: ALLEN CHEROKEE GREENWOOD NEOSHO BOURBON CRAWFORD LABETTE WILSON CHAUTAUQUA ELK MONTGOMERY WOODSON SYNOPSIS: A WARM FRONTAL BOUNDAYR EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS HAS BEEN DEPRESSED SOUTHWARD BY MORNING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. WITH RATHER STRONG MOIST UNSTABLE AIR FLOWING UP FROM THE SOUTH...NEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...AND LIKELY THOUGH THE NIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...HOWEVER THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE FROM HEAVY RAIN. THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED IN MANY AREAS...AND LOCALLIZED FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN LOW LYING AREAS FROM ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. HEDGES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 55 min |
| Jul 23, 7:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Crawford | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 9:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Neosho | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 12:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Bourbon | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 106 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.