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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
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
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.
- 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
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 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 52 min |
| Jun 12, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 3 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.