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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2001Harper County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2001, 7:04 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 116 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
Jun 5, 2001, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Harper County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 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
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 060005
FFWICT
KSC077-060200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
704 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 702 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER HARPER COUNTY.  RADAR ESTIMATES
  OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF THE 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 HARPER COUNTY
UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3738 9780 3702 9781 3702 9836 3738 9834

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner54 min
Jun 5, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper13 min
Jun 5, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey23 min
Jun 5, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper42 min
Jun 5, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler57 min
Jun 5, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner41 min
Jun 5, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler48 min
Jun 5, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner62 min
Jun 5, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk62 min
Jun 5, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner41 min
Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSumner115 min
Jun 5, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley53 min
Jun 5, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson61 min
Jun 5, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick54 min
Jun 5, 11:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSumner115 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.