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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 2:03 PM CDT for Sumner 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
- Jun 4, 2002, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 1487 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
923 WGUS53 KICT 041903 FFWICT KSC191-042300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 203 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 156 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. MORE RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS. THIS WILL ONLY WORSEN THE CURRENT SITUATION. 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 SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3742 9718 3704 9718 3704 9766 3742 9766 /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, 12:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 5 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, 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
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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.