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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2002, 2:29 AM CDT for Sedgwick 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, 2:29 AM CDT (07:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2002, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 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, 7.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 240729 FFWICT KSC173-241130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 228 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 630 AM CDT * AT 225 AM CDT...KFDI RADIO REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN PROGRESS IN WICHITA IN TWO LOCATIONS: AT THE ELM OLIVER INTERSECTION WHERE VEHICLES WERE STALLED AND RESCUES IN PROGRESS...AND AT THE 31ST STREET SOUTH SENECA INTERSECTION...WHERE CARS WERE STALLED AS WELL. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... DOWNTOWN WICHITA...VALLEY CENTER...PARK CITY...SOUTH WICHITA... MAIZE 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 SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 630 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3788 9715 3750 9717 3750 9764 3788 9764 /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 4 hr |
| May 24, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 4 hr |
| May 24, 3:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 4 hr |
| May 24, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 6 hr |
| May 24, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 6 hr |
| May 24, 4:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 5 hr |
| May 24, 5:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 5 hr |
| May 24, 6:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Allen | 4 hr |
| May 24, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 38 min |
| May 24, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 24, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 56 min |
| May 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 53 min |
| May 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| May 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.