Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 1994, 7:19 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 1994, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harper County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 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 220018 FFWICT KSC077-220315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 719 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...HARPER COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN OCCURRED BETWEEN 600 PM AND 700 PM OVER PARTS OF THE COUNTY. THESE AREAS WERE NEAR THE BARBER COUNTY LINE ALONG HIGHWAY 166 AND BETWEEN HARPER AND ANTHONY. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 800 PM OVER THE COUNTY AS THE STORMS DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTH. LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL LIKELY BECOME IMPASSIBLE. 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. 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
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 3:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 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
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 4:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ052-053-067-068-069-082-083-091-092-093-212300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 456 PM CDT THU APR 21 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 450 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A 30 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR RAGO...OR 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF EL DORADO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WERE NOTED JUST NORTHWEST OF VIOLA OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS FOUND JUST WEST OF WHITEWATER...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELDORADO. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF VIOLA...WHITEWATER..NORTHWICH...AND ANNELLY ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS AND SHOULD MOVE INSIDE UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF DROPPING TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR...SO IF YOU ENCOUNTER WATER COVERED ROADWAYS...TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER ROUTE. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #106 CONTINUED FOR SOUTHEAST AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 1000 PM.* HYSELL
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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.