Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1992, 7:35 PM CDT for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1992, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1992, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Neosho County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 100037 FFWICT KSC133-100330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...NEOSHO COUNTY AT 729 PM CDT...NEOSHO COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICALS REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED DUE TO HEAVY RAINS FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. REPORTS UP TO 3.50 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN A 45 MINUTE PERIOD HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU LIVE IN LOW LYING AREAS SEEK HIGHER GROUND! 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. HYSELL
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, Jun 9, 1:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-092100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 156 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF WICHITA...HUTCHINSON...AND ARKANSAS CITY. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS...HAD DEVELOPED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH MORE DEVELOPING IN NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST OVER AREAS THAT ARE ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE STORMS OF THE PAST WEEK. HEAVY RAINS MAY RESULT IN SUBSTANTIAL RUNOFF AND THE POSSIBlILITY OF FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE ARE ADVISED TO BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 4 hr |
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.