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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS

April 29, 1995Harper County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1995, 2:01 AM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 1995, 2:01 AM CDT (07:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 1995, 5:00 AM 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, 7.0 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.

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: 102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1378 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 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 290704
FFWICT
KSC077-291000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
201 AM CDT SAT APR 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...HARPER COUNTY
 
...A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM FOR ALL OF HARPER COUNTY...
 
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER HARPER COUNTY AND RADAR INDICATED
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 4 INCHES HAD FALLEN OVER PARTS OF THE COUNTY.
MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE
SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO OVERFLOW THIER BANKS.
 
IF YOUR LIVE IN A LOW LYING AREA AND OBSERVE RAPIDLY RISING WATER MOVE
TO HIGHER GROUND AT ONCE!
 
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 IzN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING
WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE.
 
DUDLEY
 
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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.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Apr 28, 10:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 10:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1019 PM CDT FRI APR 28 1995

MSTR RETURNING TO KS THIS EVENING.  POSITION OF LOW TONIGHT AND TMRW
MRNG IFFY...BUT 00Z SFC MAP SHOWS IT OVR SERN CO. ADAP SHOWS NICE PRES
FALLS OVR OK AND PRESS RISES OVER NERN CO/WRN NE. WOULD APPEAR THAT ETA
COULD BE ON TRACK WITH TAKING THE LOW SOUTH. THIS WOULD  DROP POPS ACRS
KS TONIGHT AND TMRW MRNG. ALSO ALLOW MORE COLD AIR IN TMRW...LOWERING
TMPS.
t
RSL 48/57 53  SLN 49/47 62
ICT 53/63 52  HUT 52/52 62
CNU 52/65 66

STRAHAN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 29, 12:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

KSZ091-290645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1238 AM CDT SAT APR 29 1995

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF ATTICA OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
MEDICINE LODGE IS PRODUCjING MARBLE SIZE HAIL AS IT MOVES EAST AT 15 MPH.
THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE ANTHONY AREA BY 130 PM. THOSE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT SMALL HAIL AS IT PASSES.

DUDLEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	40 min
Apr 29, 2:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	3 hr
Apr 29, 4:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	6 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.