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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Wichita, KS

May 24, 2002Elk County, Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2002, 2:10 AM CDT for Elk County, Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2002, 2:10 AM CDT (07:10 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 2002-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2002-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 175 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 240710
FFWICT
KSC049-073-241100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
210 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
  ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 205 AM CDT...GREENWOOD COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED WATER BEGINNING 
TO COVER PARTS OF HIGHWAY K96 NEAR SEVERY IN EXTREME SOUTH-CENTRAL 
GREENWOOD COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF 
RAIN HAVE OCCURRED OVER AN AREA ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE CENTERED ALONG 
THE GREENWOOD ELK COUNTY LINE

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT...WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING...OR IS 
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER 
ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS COVERED BY WATER...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT

REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GREENWOOD AND
ELK COUNTIES UNTIL 600 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3780 9600 3741 9601 3742 9649 3781 9648

/ES

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 12:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley4 hr
May 24, 2:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick4 hr
May 24, 3:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua4 hr
May 24, 3:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTWilson6 hr
May 24, 4:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTLabette, Montgomery, Neosho6 hr
May 24, 4:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley5 hr
May 24, 5:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTElk, Greenwood5 hr
May 24, 6:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTAllen4 hr
May 24, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner38 min
May 24, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley62 min
May 24, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion56 min
May 24, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler53 min
May 24, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood61 min
May 24, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner55 min
May 24, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley62 min
May 24, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler64 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.