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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS

May 17, 1995Saline County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1995, 12:43 AM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Saline County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 170544
FFWICT
KSC169-171145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1243 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SALINE COUNTY
 
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SALINE COUNTY THROUGH 7 AM...
 
AT MIDNIGHT LAW ENFORECEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF
ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS MUCH OF SALINE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS
DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS HAVE DUMPED ALMOST 6INCHES OF RAIN OVER
NORTHEAST SALINE COUNTY...WITH OVER 4 INCHES FALLING IN THE CITY OF
SALINA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO REDEVELOP LATER THIS MORNING
POSSIBLY CAUSING ADDITIONAL FLOODING.
 
 
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.4 DO NOT STAY IN 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 May 16, 3:45 PM CDT, 8 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:45 PM CDT, 8 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
345 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

...FCST PROBLEM IS TRW...

LATEST SFC ANAL SHOWS TROUGH OVER EAST NE TO SOUTHWEST KS WHILE THE
MAIN COLD AIR PUNCH IS OVER SD. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT IN THAT
THEY BRING THE COLD FRONT ACROSS NORTH KS TONIGHT AND THEN TAKE IT
THROUGH THE STATE TOMORROW WHILE A LOW OVER CO WILL MOVE ACROSS THE
SOUTH PART OF THE STATE. PLENTY OF MOISTURE IS IN PLACE AT THE LOW
LEVELS WITH INSTABILITY ALSO NOT A PROBLEM.  GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT CAN
BE FOUND ON  THE I308-I310 SFCS.  VVELS GIVE STRONG UPWARD MOTION WHICH
IS SUPPORTED BY GOOD QG FORCING AT H85. GUIDANCE DIFFERS SOMEWHAT AND
HAVE OPTED TO GO WITH SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPS TONIGHT WITH LITTLE
RECOVERY EXPECTED TMRW.

RSL 57/61 88  SLN 58/62 88
ICT 67/70 88  HUT 66/70 88
CNU 66/71 78

KING

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 12:33 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1230 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....LOCATION.....      STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
05/16/95
1840       GYPSUM 4S               KS     GOLF BALL HAIL
           SALINE

1922       GORHAM                  KS     GOLF BALL HAIL
           RUSSELL

1940       RUSSELL CITY            KS     GOLF BALL HAIL
           RUSSELL

1945       WILSON LAKE             KS     TORNADO
           RUSSELL

2017       LINCOLN CITY            KS     NICKEL HAIL
           LINCOLN

2042       LINCOLN 11/2E           KS     QUARTER HAIL
           LINCOLN

2059       SALINA 10WNW            KS     60-70 WINDS
           SA(LINE

2138       SALINA                  KS     NICKEL HAIL
           SALINE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	24 min
May 16, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	60 min
May 16, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	17 min
May 16, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	58 min
May 16, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	21 min
May 16, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	43 min
May 16, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	27 min
May 16, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	56 min
May 17, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	44 min
May 17, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	46 min
May 17, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	56 min
May 17, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	49 min
May 17, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	51 min
May 17, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	47 min
May 17, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	35 min
May 17, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	25 min
May 17, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	30 min
May 17, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	65 min
May 17, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	41 min
May 17, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	69 min
May 17, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	30 min
May 17, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	59 min
May 17, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	61 min
May 17, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	66 min
May 17, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Bourbon	31 min
May 17, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Crawford	63 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.