Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1992, 11:56 AM CDT for Chase County, Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1992, 11:56 AM CDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chase County, KS, Marion County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 614 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 23 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, 17 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, 11:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Crawford | 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
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.