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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2002, 5:20 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Lincoln 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 11, 2002, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 2237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 112220 FFWICT KSC053-105-120415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 520 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 513 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG THE LINCOLN ELLSWORTH COUNTY LINE. DOPPLER ESTIMATES ARE THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN ONE HOUR. 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. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS COVERED BY WATER. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN AND ELLSWORTH COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3905 9796 3867 9796 3867 9845 3905 9845 /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 56 min |
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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.