Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1992, 1:05 PM CDT for Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1992, 1:05 PM CDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 031809 FFWICT KSC205-032100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 105 PM CDT MON AUG 3 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 ...WILSON COUNTY AT 105 PM CDT A RAINFALL OBSERVER REPORTED THAT 3.2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN FREDONIA OVER THE PAST HOUR. FREDONIA IS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE. MOST STREETS IN THAT CITY ARE FLOODED AND CREEKS ARE RUNNING HIGH. RAIN WAS STILL FALLING AND SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL LIKELY GO OUT OF THEIR BANKS. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A CREEK OR STREAM GET TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. 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.
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, Aug 3, 11:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-031720- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1118 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1107 AM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS 15 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES WEST OF EMPORIA TO 15 MILES WEST OF WICHITA TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS CONTINUE OUT AHEAD OF THIS LINE. THE STRONG WINDS RAN ROUGHLY PARALLEL TO THIS LINE...FROM CASSODAY TO DOUGLASS TO UDALL TO WELLINGTON. THE LINE WAS TRACKING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER INTENSE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM...POSSIBLY WITH HAIL...WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA...NEAR TETERVILLE. . MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD ALSO REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITIES FOR FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN FLOOD-PRONE AND LOW-LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DROPPING AROUND TWO INCHES AS THEY PASS. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS AT THIS TIME. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #717 INCLUDES PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 3 PM CDT. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 11:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-031745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1137 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 ...STRONG WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS CONTINUE WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 1130 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG A LINE 15 MILES WIDE... FROM 25 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA TO ARKANSAS CITY. STRONG WINDS WERE OUT IN FRONT OF THE LINE. AMONG THE REPORTS RECEIVED WERE: WINDS MEASURED AT 51 MPH IN WINFIELD AT 1130 AM...WINDS MEASURED AT 50 MPH IN ARKANSAS CITY ABOUT 1130 AM... WINDS MEASURED AT 50 MPH IN AUGUSTA ABOUT 1100 AM. HEAVY RAIN REPORTS INCLUDE 1.70 INCHES IN LINCOLNVILLE BETWEEN 9-11 AM... AND 1.22 INCHES IN NORTHEAST WICHITA BETWEEN 10-1130 AM. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...EXPECT HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. PREPARE BY MOVING INDOORS TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. FLASH FLOODING REMAINS A POSSIBILITY AND RESIDENTS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #717 INCLUDES PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 3 PM CDT. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 11:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-031800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1150 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH 50 MPH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL PASS NORTHEAST OF SEVERY...SOUTH OF PIEDMONT...AND NORTHEAST OF SILVERDALE... BEFORE 1215 PM CDT... IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THESE TOWNS...PREPARE NOW BY MOVING INDOORS TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. AT 1145 AM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHANUTE TO 45 MILES EAST OF WICHITA TO 5 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS COVERED MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. . *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #717 INCLUDES PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 3 PM CDT. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 12:11 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
KSZ012-014-017-031815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1210 PM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 ...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH 50 MPH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL LIKELY PASS BETWEEN TORONTO AND FALL RIVER RESERVOIRS BEFORE 1230 PM CDT... IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THESE AREAS...AND ESPECIALLY BOATERS ON EITHER LAKE...MOVE OFF THE WATERS AND TO A PLACE OF SHELTER BEFORE THESE STORMS APPROACH. AT 12 NOON...AN INTENSE STORM 15 MILES WIDE WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF EUREKA...ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR BUTLER...COWLEY...GREENWOOD...HARPER...SEDGWICK AND SUMNERp COUNTIES. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #717 CONTINES FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. LEIVER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 12:39 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-031845-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1240 PM CDT MON AUG 3 1992
...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH 50 MPH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL
LIKELY PASS WESTERN AND CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY BEFORE 115 PM CDT...
IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR INDEPENDENCE OR COFFEYVILLE...MOVE INDOORS TO A
PLACE OF SHELTER BEFORE THESE STORMS APPROACH.
AT 1233 PM...A LINE OF STORMS 10 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES SOUTH-
WEST OF CHANUTE TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE TO 15 MILES WEST OF
COFFEYVILLE.
IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
*SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #717 INCLUDES CHAUTAUQUA...ELK...LABETTE...
MONTGOMERY AND WILSON COUNTIES UNTIL 3 PM.
...LEIVERSSpecial weather statement, Aug 3, 12:48 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-031850- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1250 PM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH 50 MPH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL LIKELY PASS WESTERN AND CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY BEFORE 115 PM CDT... IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR INDEPENDENCE OR COFFEYVILLE...MOVE INDOORS TO A PLACE OF SHELTER BEFORE THESE STORMS APPROACH. AT 1245 PM...A LINE OF STORMS 10 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES NORTH- WEST OF PARSONS TO COFFEYVILLE. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA 110 MILES WIDE... CENTERED ALONG A LINE FROM OTTAWA TO HUTCHINSON. THE AREA WAS ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #717 INCLUDES ELK...CHAUTAUQUA...WILSON... MONTGOMERY AND LABETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 3 PM CDT. LEIVERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 9:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 65 min |
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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.