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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 2001, 3:23 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- May 17, 2001, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 2166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KICT 172023
FFWICT
KSC191-172115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
323 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED BETWEEN 4 AND 6 INCHES OF RAIN...
HAS OCCURRED IN A BAND FROM NEAR ARGONIA TO NEAR BELLE PLAINE.
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.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH 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.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY
UNTIL 415 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3738 9780 3716 9780 3715 9716 3746 9717
3747 9752
/HOWERTON
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 44 min |
| May 17, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| May 17, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 54 min |
| May 17, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 57 min |
| May 17, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 58 min |
| May 17, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 54 min |
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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.