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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS

April 30, 2001Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 2001, 7:17 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 118 min. 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
Apr 30, 2001, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 666 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
666 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 010018
FFWICT
KSC105-010215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
717 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 715 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
  WAS OCCURRING ACROSS EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND UNDERPASSES...AS WELL AS
OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EASTERN 
LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT.

LAYT...LON 3907 9795 3887 9794 3888 9812 3906 9812

/URBAN

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln34 min
Apr 30, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSaline40 min
Apr 30, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline60 min
Apr 30, 9:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSaline3 hr

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.