Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1994, 1:27 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 1:27 AM CDT (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Elk County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 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 280633 FFWICT KSC019-049-125-205-280930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 127 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...ELK COUNTY ...NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY...WILSON COUNTY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING AREA. RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF THREE INCHES IS LIKELY OVER THIS AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN THROUGH 100 AM WAS ALONG A LINE FROM 10 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE TO NEAR HARPER TO 45 MILES WEST OF COFFEYVILLE NEAR WAUNETA...WHERE TWO TO THREE INCHES HAVE FALLEN. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE WARNING AREA THROUGH 400 AM. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AREAS AROUND FREDONIA...NEODOSHA...LONGTON... ELK FALLS AND ELK CITY SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT. IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY MOVING WATER...IT MAY BE YOUR LAST MISTAKE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE. HOWERTON
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
Local storm report, Apr 27, 8:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
820 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR 4/27/94
ALL TIMES CDT
TIME COUNTY REPORT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
523 PM SUMNER TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 11/2 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CALDWELL
525 PM SUMNER 3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN CALDWELL BY SUMNER COUNTY EP
547 PM SUMNER 1 INCH HAIL IN BELLE PLAINE REPORTED BY THE SUMNER COUNTY
EP
550 PM SUMNER 1 INCH HAIL 3 MILES NORTH OF BELLE PLAINE REPORTED BY
THE SUMNER COUNTY EP
603 PM SEDGWICK DIME SIZE HA$IL REPORTED BY A TRAINED SPOTTER IN
DERBY
655 PM COWLEY DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY A TRAINED SPOTTER IN
WINFIELD.
ROSNERSpecial weather statement, Apr 27, 8:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
KSC001-019-021-035-037-049-073-099-125-133-191-205-207-280300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 856 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #154 FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS WILL BE ALLOW TO EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE NIGHT BUT WITH HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL AND SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 63 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.