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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 12:56 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 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
- Jun 4, 2002, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 041756 FFWICT KSC035-042300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1255 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 1251 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WESTERN PARTS OF COWLEY COUNTY. ONE HOUR RAINFALL ESTIMATES WERE BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2 INCHES. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING...OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS COVERED BY WATER. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3730 9664 3703 9663 3704 9712 3732 9710 /CHANCE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 8:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 11:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 2:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 6 hr |
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.