Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 27, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT for Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cowley County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 594 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 724 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 280031 FFWICT KSC035-191-280430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 730 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...COWLEY COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN SUMNER COUNTY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS PERSISTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST SUMNER AND MUCH OF COWLEY COUNTIES THROUGH THE DAY. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW THAT BETWEEN FIVE TO SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN APPEARS TO HAVE FALLED FROM SOUTH HAVEN...OR 17 MILES WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...TO ATLANTA...OR 23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL DORADO. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN SUMNER COUNTY REPORT WATER BEGINNING TO COVER HIGHWAY 166 NEAR SOUTH HAVEN. WITH THE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL...MANY ROADS COULD BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF WATER...IF YOU DRIVE INTO THIS AREA...YOUR CAR COULD BE EASILY SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS A WATER COVERED ROAD. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS WATER-COVERED ROADWAYS. THE WATER DEPTH AND CURRENT MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFE2LY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. HYSELL &
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 27, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
KSZ094-095-096-097-098-099-100-101-272115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 314 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...STRONG THUNERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 315 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF FORT SCOTT...TO 15 MILES NORTH OF COFFEYVILLE. THESE STORMS LIKELY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND PEOPLE IN CHERRYVALE...ST. PAUL...FORT SCOT...AND PARSONS ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS AND SHOULD MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THEY PASS. *A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #154 CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSA S.* HYSELL
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 3:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
KSC155-272145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 338 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN RENO COUNTY.... AT 335 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH RENO COUNTY. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR PARTRIDGE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO HUTCHINSON AROUND 345 PM. PEOPLE IN HUTCHINSON AND WHITESIDE SHOvULD LOOKOUT FOR PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. ROSNER
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 4:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
KSZ032-033-047-048-049-050-051-052-053-067-068-069-070-082-083- 091-092-093-272300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 401 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE OVER CENTRAL KASNAS... AT 355 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE SOME STANDING WATER...AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS ACTIVITY WAS RAPIDLY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. MOST OF THE STORMS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR GREAT BEND...TO MEDICINE LODGE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROCHES...MOVE INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. ALSO...IF YOU ENCOUNTER WATER COVERED ROADWAYS...TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER ROUTE. HYSELL
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ071-072-073-094-095-096-097-098-099-100-101-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 459 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 453 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. MANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE PONDING IN LOW LYING AREAS. THIS AREA OF STORMS EXTENDED NORTH OF A LINE FROM JUST NORTH OF PITTSBURG...TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF HOWARD...OR 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL DORADO. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING AT THIS TIME...CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS EVENING. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS. *SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #154 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 900 PM CDT.* HYSELL
Local storm report, Apr 27, 5:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
515 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR 4/27/94
ALL TIMES CDT
TIME COUNTY REPORT
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1056 AM HARVEY DIME SIZE HAIL 5E NEWTON
1058 AM SEDGWICK NICKEL SIZE HAIL NORTHEAST WICHITA (HWY 254 OFF
GREENWICH- SPOTTER)
1114 AM BUTLER DIME SIZE HAIL 3E AUGUSTA (SHERIFF)
1110 AM BUTLER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN DOUGLASS (RADION STN)
1130 AM SUMNER 3/4 INCH HAIL IN ARGONIA
200 PM CHAUTAUQUA 3/4 INCH HAIL AT SEDAN
207 PM MONTGOMERY DIME SIZE HAIL 3SE ELK CITY
220 PM SUMNER DIME SIZE HAIL 5NW CALDWELL
242 PM SUMNER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 3SE SOUTH HAVEN
245 PM MONTGOMERY DIME SIZE HAIL 3SE ELK CITY
255 PM COWLEY 3/4 INCH HAIL IN ARKANSAS CITY (HAM)
307 PM KINGMAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN NORWICH (SPOTTER)
CLC/MJRLocal storm report, Apr 27, 5:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
530 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR 4/27/94
ALL TIMES CDT
TIME COUNTY REPORT
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1056 AM HARVEY DIME SIZE HAIL 5E NEWTON
1058 AM SEDGWICK NICKEL SIZE HAIL NORTHEAST WICHITA (HWY 254 OFF
GREENWICH- SPOTTER)
1114 AM BUTLER DIME SIZE HAIL 3E AUGUSTA (SHERIFF)
1110 AM BUTLER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN DOUGLASS (RADIO STN)
1130 AM SUMNER 3/4 INCH HAIL IN ARGONIA
1255 PM SEDGWICK 50 KT WIND MEASURED AT ICT NWS
200 PM CHAUTAUQUA 3/4 INCH HAIL AT SEDAN
207 PM MONTGOMERY DIME SIZE HAIL 3SE ELK CITY
220 PM SUMNER DIME SIZE HAIL 5NW CALDWELL
242 PM SUMNER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 3SE SOUTH HAVEN
245 PM MONTGOMERY DIME SIZE HAIL 3SE ELK CITY
255 PM COWLEY 3/4 INCH HAIL IN ARKANSAS CI>TY (HAM)
307 PM KINGMAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN NORWICH (SPOTTER)
CLC/MJRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Apr 28, 1:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 3 hr |
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.