Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1992, 8:03 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1992, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 110108 FFWICT KSC015-110500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 803 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...BUTLER COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN EXTEND FROM 25 MILES EAST OF WICHITA...NEAR AUGUSTA...TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA...NEAR EL DORADO. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN EL DORADO REPORT THAT THE CREEKS IN THE CITY ARE ALREADY OUT OF THEIR BANKS...STREETS ARE FLOODED IN THE CITY...AND THE WALNUT RIVER IS RISING RAPIDLY. PERSONS IN EL DORADO...WATCH FOR RISING WATER...AND BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. PEOPLE DOWNSTREAM ON THE WALNUT RIVER AND LITTLE WALNUT RIVER...IN AUGUSTA...DOUGLASS...AND LEON SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR RISING WATER AND BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF THEY GO TOF THEIRl BANKS. 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, 5:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-092330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 530 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1992 ...HEAVY RAIN IS FALLING IN PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...ARE LOCATED IN THE WICHITA AND HUTCHINSON AREAS. ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN OBSERVED. THE HEAVY RAIN SHOULD CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 30 MINUTES TO ONE HOUR. STREET FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING AND 8WILL GET WORSE...SO SLOW DOWN AND BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT INTERSECTIONS. SINCE 5:15 PM ALMOST ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT THE WICHITA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. ELDER
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 548 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 AT 534 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE IN AN AREA FROM WICHITA...TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...NEAR PARTRIDGE...TO 25 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA...NEAR NEWTON. REPORTS OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND RAINS OF AROUND A HALF INCH IN 15 TO 30 MINUTES HAVE OCCURED FROM THESE STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAUSING STREET FLOODING PROBLEMS...ESPECIALLY AT INTERSECTIONS...SO MOTORISTS BE CAREFUL. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF CHANUTE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF IOLA. THIS THUNDER- STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE IN AN AREA 120 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR OVER EASTERN KANSAS...WHILE IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE THEY WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR PART OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT. A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE VERDIGRIS RIVER IN EASTERN GREENWOOD COUNTY TILL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. ELDER
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:08 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
KSC035-110115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 706 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 A NUMBER OF COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN ARKANSAS CITY NORTHWARD TO 10 MILES NORTH OF ARKANSAS CITY NEAR WINFIELD. THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY OR TOUCH DOWN AND CAUSE ANY DAMAGE. ELDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 11:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 7 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.