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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 5:40 PM CDT for Montgomery 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, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 042240 FFWICT KSC125-050430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 539 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * HEAVY RAIN HAS OCCURRED OVER MUCH OF THE COUNTY. THE GREATEST RAINFALL HAS BEEN ALONG A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST...TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF INDEPENDENCE. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY THROUGH 8 PM. 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. 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3737 9554 3700 9553 3700 9595 3737 9595 /HOWERTON 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, 2:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 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.