Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1996, 9:10 PM CDT for Barton 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 31, 1996, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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 127 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
- 2053 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 010217 COR FFWICT KSC009-010515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION TO TEXT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 910 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 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 CENTRAL KANSAS ...BARTON COUNTY AT 912 PM CDT...WICHITA WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS BRINGING VERY HEAVY RAINS ACROSS BARTON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY SOUTH AND WEST OF GREAT BEND. BARTON COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING IN THE PAWNEE ROCK AREA. ALSO...HIGHWAY 56 IN SOUTHWEST BARTON COUNTY WAS FLOODED IN AREAS. DOPPLER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES SHOW THAT 1.5 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS THIS AREA SINCE 8 PM. WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TONIGHT...FLOODING CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO WORSEN. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. REMEMBER...3/4 OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE THE RESULT OF EITHER DRIVING INTO FLOOD WATERS OR CHILDREN PLAYING IN FLOOD WATERS. MOST FLOODING DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES... DIPS... OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. 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.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 31, 3:40 AM CDT, 17 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:40 AM CDT, 17 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 341 AM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996 PLENTIFUL LO LVL MSTR ON MODEST SLY FLO TO CONT ACRS CWA TODAY. H8 DWPTS OF +14 TO +16C DEPICTED BEST BY NGM INTO CNTRL/ERN KS DURG DAY ON 25-30KT LLJ. SFC WRMFNT PROGD TO MOV ONLY SLOLY NWD ACRS OK AND INTO SCNTRL AND SERN KS LATER THIS EVE. THIS IN COMBO WITH PERIODIC S/WVS IN UPR FLO OVR UNSTABLE AIRMASS SHUD INITIATE CNVTN ACRS FA THRU TNGT. KICT 88D ALREADY SHOWG CNVTN DVLPG JUST E OF ICT ATTM ACRS SRN FLINT HILLS. BELIEVE LIKELY CAT 60 POPS WARRANTED ACRS AREA TODAY. DO NOT SEE MUCH IN WAY OF SS WHICH MAY TEMPER EXTENT OF SVR WX A BIT. FWC TEMPS SEEM RSNBL. RSL 075/061 65 SLN 075/063 65 ICT 078/065 65 HUT 077/064 65 CNU 077/065 66 KED
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 31, 4:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
415 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0408 PM 5 S CLAFLIN KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/31/96 BARTON
HYSELLLocal storm report, May 31, 4:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
435 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0423 PM 4 W BUSHTON KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/31/96 RICE REPORTED BY CITIZEN
0424 PM BUSHTON KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/31/96 RICE REPORTED BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
0428 PM BUSHTON KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/96 RICE REPORTED BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
HYSELLLocal storm report, May 31, 4:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
442 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0428 jPM 4 SW HOLYROOD KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/96 ELLSWORTH REPORTED BY CITIZEN
HYSELLLocal storm report, May 31, 4:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
445 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM 3 S CLAFLIN KS 1.80 INCH HAIL
05/31/96 BARTON REPORTED BY SHERIFF'S
DEPUTY COVERING THE GROUND
NOONANLocal storm report, May 31, 5:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
508 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0445 PM 4 SE RUSSELL KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/31/96 RUSSELL REPORTED BY CITIZEN
SOME CARS DENTED
HYSELLLocal storm report, May 31, 5:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
543 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0535 PM 4 NW CHASE KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/96 RICE REPORTED BY CITIZEN
HYSELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 53 min |
| May 31, 7:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 5 hr |
| May 31, 7:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 5 hr |
| May 31, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 56 min |
| May 31, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 62 min |
| May 31, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 66 min |
| May 31, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 64 min |
| May 31, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 65 min |
| May 31, 10:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 4 hr |
| May 31, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 62 min |
| May 31, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 58 min |
| May 31, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 49 min |
| May 31, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 45 min |
| May 31, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 51 min |
| May 31, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 61 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.