Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 1992, 3:06 AM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1992, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1992, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harper County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 4174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 110808 FFWICT KSC077-111115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 306 AM CDT TUE AUG 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...HARPER COUNTY AT 300 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS HARBER COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHOWN LITTLE MOVEMENT...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OVER THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. WATER HAS ALREADY COVERED SOME ROADS IN ANTHONY AND ATTICA...IN HARPER COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL INCREASE THE FLOODING PROBLEMS. 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, Aug 11, 12:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-110540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1205 AM CDT TUE AUG 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING QUICKLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 1150 PM...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH CHANUTE NEAR HUMBOLT. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUNG LIGHTNING... SMALL HAIL AND WINDS TO NEAR 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE 20 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES EAST OF CHANUTE TO 40 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON AND INTO WESTERN KANSAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. ONCE AGAIN...MOVE TO REINFORCED SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS SOUTfH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 752 CONTINUES UNTIL 4 AM CDT FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... NOONAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 65 min |
| Aug 11, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 55 min |
| Aug 11, 2:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 114 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.