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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS

April 21, 1994Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 1994, 4:36 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 21, 1994, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Greenwood County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 212139 RRA
FFWICT
KSC073-220145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
436 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
 
   ...GREENWOOD COUNTY
 
AT 435 PM CDT...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS GREENWOOD COUNTY...HAVE
DROPPED AN ESTIMATED THREE INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 330 PM
IN NORTHWEST GREENWOOD COUNTY...INCLUDING THRALL AND TETERVILLE.
 
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A FOOT OF WATER GOING OVER ROADWAYS ITETERVILLE.
 
THE STORMS PRODUCING THIS FLOODING WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO
15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
HYSELL
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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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 21, 12:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>073-082-083-091>101-220600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
1223 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS:

BARTON      COWLEY      HARVEY      MARION      RENO        SEDGWICK
BUTLER      ELLSWORTH   KINGMAN     MC PHERSON  RUSSELL     SUMNER
CHASE       HARPER      LINCOLN     RICE        SALINE

AND IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS:

ALLEN       CHEROKEE    GREENWOOD    NEOSHO
BOURBON     CRAWFORD    LABETTE      WILSON
CHAUTAUQUA  ELK         MONTGOMERY   WOODSON

SYNOPSIS:

AT MIDDAY...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM A LOW NORTH OF WICHITA TO NEAR
JOPLIN MISSOURI.  WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF THIS FRONT.
AS THE FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH SOUTH TODAY...SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.  THE BEST
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WOULD BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COFFEYVILLE TO
ELDORADO TO HUTCHINSON.  SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME SMALL
HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

HOWERTON

Special weather statement, Apr 21, 3:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

KSZ052-053-070-071-072-095-096-100-212130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
329 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994

AT 325 PM..RADAR INDCATED AN 80 MILE LONG LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF MCPHERSON NEAR
HILLSBORO...TO CHANUTE. THE LINE WAS 20 MILES WIDE MOVING EAST AT 20
MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE CHANUTE...IOLA AREA BY 345
PM AND IN THE MARION...EUREKA AREA BY 335 PM.x YOU CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINS
AND PEA SIZE HAIL.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LFW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 5:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	56 min
Apr 21, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson, Woodson	54 min
Apr 21, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	63 min
Apr 21, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	63 min
Apr 21, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	57 min
Apr 21, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	65 min
Apr 21, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	63 min
Apr 21, 5:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Elk, Wilson	4 hr
Apr 21, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	47 min
Apr 21, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	64 min
Apr 21, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	60 min
Apr 21, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	45 min
Apr 21, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	68 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.