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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Wichita, KS

June 11, 2002McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2002, 8:13 PM CDT for McPherson 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, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2002, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McPherson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 00:00Z on 2002-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3957 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2002-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 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
3957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1011 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.3
Supercell composite
17.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 120113
FFWICT
KSC113-120715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
812 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MCPHERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 808 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL

* AT 812 PM CDT...TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED THAT STREETS IN THE TOWN 
OF MCPHERSON WERE ONE AND A HALF TO 2 FEET DEEP.

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 MCPHERSON
COUNTY UNTIL 230 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3857 9739 3818 9739 3818 9788 3857 9788

/ES
&

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Rice62 min
Jun 11, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson65 min
Jun 11, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion65 min
Jun 11, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase64 min
Jun 11, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey58 min
Jun 11, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice67 min
Jun 11, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler54 min
Jun 11, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion44 min
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase60 min
Jun 11, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno, Rice59 min
Jun 11, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno62 min
Jun 11, 10:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTHarvey6 hr
Jun 11, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick62 min
Jun 11, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey56 min
Jun 11, 11:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick6 hr
Jun 12, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner55 min
Jun 12, 1:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery56 min
Jun 12, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette57 min
Jun 12, 3:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno77 min
Jun 12, 5:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick54 min
Jun 12, 6:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley43 min
Jun 12, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley60 min
Jun 12, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Sumner56 min
Jun 12, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley66 min
Jun 12, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler64 min
Jun 12, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarper, Sumner59 min
Jun 12, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick59 min
Jun 12, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWoodson58 min
Jun 12, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman68 min
Jun 12, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley66 min
Jun 12, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner79 min
Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Harper78 min

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.