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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS

March 15, 2001Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 15, 2001, 12:47 PM CST for Marion 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 15, 2001, 12:47 PM CST (18:47 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 2001, 3:45 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Marion County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2001-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2001-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 151852
FFWICT
KSC115-152145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1247 PM CST THU MAR 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 1240 PM CST...A RAINFALL AMOUNT OF 2.82 INCHES WAS REPORTED AT 
A KSN WEATHER LAB SCHOOL IN LOST SPRINGS IN NORTHEAST MARION 
COUNTY.  

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MARION COUNTY
UNTIL 345 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3847 9693 3814 9692 3818 9728 3851 9734

BAKER

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 8:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman45 min
Mar 14, 9:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman55 min
Mar 14, 9:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion50 min
Mar 14, 10:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper52 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.