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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Wichita, KS

June 13, 2002Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2002, 11:25 AM CDT for Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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 13, 2002, 11:25 AM CDT (16:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Butler County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 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 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-469 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 131625
FFWICT
KSC015-173-131930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1124 AM CDT THU JUN 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 1119 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY   
RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHERN SEDGWICK AND MUCH OF BUTLER 
COUNTY. RAIN WILL FALL AT THE RATE OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR THROUGH 
1 PM.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR
DRAINAGE.



REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BUTLER AND
SEDGWICK COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3793 9659 3752 9657 3751 9719 3750 9745
          3749 9778 3793 9706

/OMITT

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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, 7:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley6 hr
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

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.