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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2001Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2001, 9:20 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 115 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, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sumner County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 060222
FFWICT
KSC191-060415-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 917 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS      
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTHEASTERN SUMNER COUNTY. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  OXFORD...SOUTH HAVEN...WELLINGTON AND RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST     
  SUMNER COUNTY.

AS OF 918 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS ESTIMATING UP TO 3 INCHES OF 
RAINFALL SINCE 8 PM IN THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FROM THE 
HEAVY STORMS WILL CAUSE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF AND 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 SUMNER C}OUNTY
UNTIL 1115 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3728 9756 3702 9751 3702 9717 3730 9717

/CARUSO

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harper	116 min
Jun 5, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	54 min
Jun 5, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	13 min
Jun 5, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	23 min
Jun 5, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	42 min
Jun 5, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	57 min
Jun 5, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	41 min
Jun 5, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler	48 min
Jun 5, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	62 min
Jun 5, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	62 min
Jun 5, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	41 min
Jun 5, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	53 min
Jun 5, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	61 min
Jun 5, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	54 min
Jun 5, 11:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	115 min

Nearby

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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.