Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 10, 1994, 10:54 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 1994, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1994, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bourbon County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 437 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 464 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 110356 FFWICT KSC011-021-037-099-125-133-111000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1054 PM CDT SUN APR 10 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ...BOURBON COUNTY...CHEROKEE COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY ...LABETTE COUNTY...MONTGOMERY COUNTY...NEOSHO COUNTY AT 1050 PM...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DUMP TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS. MANY STREAMS..CREEKS..AND RIVERS ARE RUNNING NEAR OR AT BANKFULL. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE UP FROM OKLAHOMA THROUGH THE NIGHT WHICH WILL LIKELY ADD TO THE FLOODING PROBLEM OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COFFEYVILLE TO FORT SCOTT. SEVERAL COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA REPORT MANY COUNTY ROADS ARE FLOODED OR WASHED OUT...AND THE COFFEYVILLE POLICE HAVE EVACUATED A FEW HOMES ALONG BANKS OF SYCAMORE CREEK IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE CITY. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN LABETTE COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF COFFEYVILLE...SINCE 700 PM. PEOPLE LIVING IN LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS...OR ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AT ONCE. 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLA\SH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE. NOONAN &
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, Apr 10, 6:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
KSZ052-053-068-069-070-071-072-073-083-092-093-094-095-096-097- 098-099-100-101-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 635 PM CDT SUN APR 10 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 65 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MOST OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 635 PM... THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS... MAINLY EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY AND EUREKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH 730 PM. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN SOUTHCENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS EVENING... BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. CAMPBELL
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 8:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
KSZ072-073-094-095-096-097-098-099-100-101-110400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 830 PM CDT SUN APR 10 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 65 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MOST OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 825 PM... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS... MAINLY EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY AND EMPORIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH 930 PM. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS EVENING... BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. . CAMPBELL
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 9:59 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
KSZ073-093-094-095-096-097-098-099-100-101-110400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 958 PM CDT SUN APR 10 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #67 CONTINUES UNTIL 200 AM FOR MOST OF SOUTHEAST AND SMALL PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 950 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE UP FROM OKLAHOMA PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS..SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORMS WERE MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM ARKANSAS CITY TO EMPORIA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NOONAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 4 hr |
| Apr 10, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Crawford | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 10:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Crawford | 55 min |
| Apr 11, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 65 min |
| Apr 11, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 25 min |
| Apr 11, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Crawford | 57 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.