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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1996, 9:14 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1996, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 100226 COR FFWICT KSC155-100515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS...CORRECTED TO FLASH FLOOD ONLY 914 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...RENO COUNTY AT 905 PM...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR RENO COUNTY HAVE REPORTED 4.25 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 7 PM. STREETS..DITCHES..AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE REPORTED FLOODED. SOME ROADS ARE BEING FLOODED ALONG THE NINNESCAH RIVER IN SOUTHERN RENO COUNTY. AVOID ALL WATER COVERED ROADS AND LOW LYING ROADS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY!! 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 IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE. KIRKWOOD J&
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 9, 3:09 PM CDT, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:09 PM CDT, 6 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 305 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996 DISCUSSION: (GOING WITH PERSISTENCE) 18Z SFC MAP CONTINUES TO SHOW BOUNDARY WEST OF CWA...DDC 88D SHOWED BOUNDARY FAIRLY WELL ALSO. COLD FRONT IS CURRENTLY MOVING THORUGH NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. ONLY QUESTION IS WILL THE CAP BREAK DOWN ENOUGH TO FIRE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS CONTINUING TO PUMP MOISTURE INTO CWA. LOOKING AT ADAP...CAP STRENGTH NOT ERODING MUCH AS OF NOW... BUT SHORT WAVE IS STILL TO THE WEST...LOOKING AT WIND PROFILER DATA. LOOKING AT H5 AND H3 SEE GOOD DIFFLUENCE OVER KANSAS. ALSO SEE GOOD DIFLUENCE IN THE THICKNESS FIELDS...WHICH SHOULD HELP INDUCE ANOTHER MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM (MCS) OVER ENTIRE CWA. H7 SHOWS PRETTY GOOD CAP OVER WESTERN KANSAS...WHICH SHOULD BREAK DOWN SOMEWHAT AS SHORTWAVE MOVES ACROSS THE STATE. MODELS SHOW COOL(COLD) FRONT CONTINUING TO MOVE SOUTHEAST...WHICH SHOULD AID IN MOVING SFC BOUNDARY TO THE EAST WHICH WILL HELP PROVIDE MORE LIFT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WEST OF CWA. AS SHORT WAVE MOVES THROUGH THE AREA FEEL THAT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR...SOME MAY BECOME SEVERE (REPEAT OF LAST FEW DAYS). CONSIDERING AMOUNT OF PRECIP THAT HAS OCCURRED OVER CENTRAL CWA AND RENO AND HARVEY COUNTIES LAST FEW DAYS AND PRECIP RETURNING TONIGHT...FEEL A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS A GOOD IDEA FOR TONIGHT. AS FOR FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORMS FCST LOOK GOOD ALONG WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS. RSL 059/068 74 SLN 060/070 74 ICT 068/077 75 HUT 065/073 75 CNU 068/079 66 KIRKWOOD
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 9, 7:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
721 PM CDT THU MAY 09 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM STERLING KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/96 RICE
0653 PM 5 S STERLING KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/09/96 RENO
0653 PM NICKERSON KS 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/96 RENO
0658 PM PLEVNA KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/96 RENO
KIRKWOODThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 59 min |
| May 9, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 67 min |
| May 9, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 55 min |
| May 9, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 43 min |
| May 9, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 51 min |
| May 10, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 53 min |
| May 10, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 58 min |
| May 10, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 53 min |
| May 10, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 43 min |
| May 10, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 38 min |
| May 10, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 38 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.