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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2002Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2002, 7:43 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley 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 12, 2002, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2002-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1711 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2002-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
1711 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1397 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
6.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 130043
FFWICT
KSC015-035-130645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
743 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 739 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS   
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS AN AREA ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE 
CENTERED ON THE BUTLER COWLEY COUNTY LINE.

DOPPLER ESTIMATES ARE THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE OCCURRED 
ACROSS THESE AREAS.

AT 741 PM CDT...BUTLER COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED 3 TO 5 
INCHES OF WATER ACROSS A ROAD JUST EAST OF DOUGLASS.

AT 742 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED WATER COVERING ROADS WEST 
OF ATLANTA.

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 BUTLER AND
COWLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 200 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3771 9657 3721 9655 3720 9709 3769 9710

/ES

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler52 min
Jun 12, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson, Woodson56 min
Jun 12, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman60 min
Jun 12, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningICTNeosho, Wilson65 min
Jun 12, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley59 min
Jun 12, 8:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman3 hr
Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley60 min
Jun 12, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner58 min
Jun 12, 8:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTNeosho6 hr
Jun 12, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTNeosho44 min
Jun 12, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette51 min
Jun 12, 9:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSumner6 hr
Jun 13, 11:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Sedgwick3 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.