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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Wichita, KS

June 4, 2002Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 3:42 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chautauqua County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2137 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

184 
WGUS53 KICT 042042
FFWICT
KSC019-050300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
341 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 340 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS   
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART 
OF THE COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS CHAUTAUQUA 
COUNTY OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS.  THIS RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE 
MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR
DRAINAGE.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CHAUTAUQUA
COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3724 9604 3704 9602 3704 9643 3726 9646

/CHANCE

NNNN





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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno45 min
Jun 4, 8:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey42 min
Jun 4, 8:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman54 min
Jun 4, 9:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno64 min
Jun 4, 9:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion61 min
Jun 4, 11:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman6 hr
Jun 4, 12:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCowley5 hr
Jun 4, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick61 min
Jun 4, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley54 min
Jun 4, 2:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSumner4 hr
Jun 4, 5:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTMontgomery6 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.