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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2000, 9:29 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2000, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2000, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 54.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 210231 FFWICT KSC009-210830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 929 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 925 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF 1 INCH PER HOUR ACROSS BARTON COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING AS THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREAS. 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. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEKATHER SERVICE. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 330 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3867 9850 3829 9850 3829 9899 3867 9899 OMITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 65 min |
| Jul 20, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.