Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1992, 5:03 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1992, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1992, 8:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenwood County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 102211 RRA FFWICT KSC073-110500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 503 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...EASTERN GREENWOOD COUNTY AT 5:00 PM CDT GREENWOOD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED THAT THE VERDIGRIS RIVER WAS OUT OF IT'S BANK AND 2 FEET OF WATER WAS OVER HIGHWAY 57...JUST EAST OF MADISON. MADISON IS 10 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA. THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUE IN THAT AREA. SO THE VERDIGRIS RIVER SHOULD CONTINUE TO RISE IN THAT AREA...AS WELL AS POINTS DOWNSTREAM...TILL IT EMPTIES INTO TORONTO LAKE. IF YOU LIVE ALONG THE VERDIGRIS RIVER IN EASTERN GREENWOOD COUNTY...GET TO HIGHER GROUND NOW...THE RIVER IS RISING...AND FLOODING IS IMMINENT THIS EVENING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS WATER-COVERED ROADWAYS. THE WATER DEPTH AND CURRENT MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. ELDER
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 10, 12:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-110500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 1159 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 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: AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST. WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE AT THE SURFACE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE PRODUCED BY THESE STORMS WILL BE TORRENTIAL RAINS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING... A FEW MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS. SPOTTER ACTIVIATION MAY BE NECESSARY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 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
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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.