Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS

March 23, 2000Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 23, 2000, 4:09 PM CST for Sedgwick 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 2000, 4:09 PM CST (22:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 23, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sedgwick County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2000-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2000-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 232220 COR
FFWICT
KSC173-240115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
409 PM CST THU MAR 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CST.

* AT 402 PM CST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING
ALONG THE COWSKIN CREEK. WATER WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROAD AT 13TH 
STREET NORTH JUST WEST OF 119TH. ALSO...57TH STREET NORTH BETWEEN
167TH AND 183RD WEST HAD WATER OVER IT. 45TH STREET NORTH BETWEEN
167TH AND 183RD ALSO WATER WATER COVERING IT. FINALLY...135TH STREET
WEST BETWEEN 21ST AND 29TH STREET HAD WATER OVER IT.

WHILE THE RAIN HAS TEMPORARILY ENDED ACROSS SEDGWICK COUNTY...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON
WILL CAUSE THE COWSKIN TO CONTINUE TO RISE. ALSO...FLOODING
OF SMALL CREEKS...STREAMS...URBAN AREAS AND UNDERPASSES.

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. 
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS 
BRIDGES...DIPS OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER 
TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE ON FOOT. MOVE UP TO 
HIGHER GROUND.

REPEATING...A FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY 
UNTIL 715 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3788 9719 3750 9719 3749 9767 3787 9767

HYSELL

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 9:21 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman6 hr
Mar 23, 3:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman3 hr
Mar 23, 5:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman4 hr
Mar 23, 5:53 PM CSTTornado WarningICTBarton52 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.