Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 28, 1992, 8:22 PM CST for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1992, 8:22 PM CST (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1992, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barton County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 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 KCNK 290224 FFWCNK KSC009-290530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 822 PM CST SAT MAR 28 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTY AT 820 PM THE SHERRIFS DEPARTMENT IN GREAT BEND REPORTED WATER WAS FLOODING HIGHWAY K-4 NEAR CLAFLIN. IN ADDITION SERIOUS STREET FLOODING WAS TAKING PLACE IN THE CLAFLIN AREA. PEOPLE IN THE CLAFLIN AREA SHOULD SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY!!! 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. 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. KLEYLA
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, Mar 28, 6:12 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-290100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 612 PM CST SAT MAR 28 1992 AT 610 PM...RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING 30 MILES WEST OF GREAT BEND. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND BY 645 PM SHOULD BE NEAR PAWNEE ROCK. PERSONS ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF BARTON COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA TAKE SHELTER INDOORS ESPECIALLY DUE THE POSSIBILITY OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. KLEYLA
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:45 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-290145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 645 PM CST SAT MAR 28 1992 AT 642 PM...RADAR SHOWED TWO THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR ALBERT AND THE OTHER WAS 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR PAWNEE ROCK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE INTO TXHE GREAT BEND AREA AFTER 7 PM. PERSONS ACROSS BARTON COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. KLEYLA
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 8:17 PM CST, 5 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-290310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 816 PM CST SAT MAR 28 1992 AT 812 PM...RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR KACKLEY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN A 15 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR RED CLOUD IN NEBRASKA TO 25 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA NEAR REPUBLIC. ALL OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. KLEYLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ellsworth, Rice | 57 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.