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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2002, 7:56 AM CDT for Reno 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
- Aug 13, 2002, 7:56 AM CDT (12:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2002, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:56 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 131256 FFWICT KSC155-131845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 755 AM CDT TUE AUG 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 750 AM CDT...RENO COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THAT FLASH FLOODING CONTINUED ACROSS THE COUNTY. THE WORST FLASH FLOODING REMAINS IN AND AROUND NICKERSON. WATER LEVELS HAVE STARTED TO RECEDE, BUT WITH THE COW CREEK FORECAST TO FLOOD NORTH OF THE AREA IN RICE COUNTY, FURTHER FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY, ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHERN RENO COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... WILLOWBROOK, TURON, SYLVIA, HUTCHINSON, PRETTY PRAIRIE, AND NICKERSON. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS AND EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, URBAN AREAS, ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES, INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. AVOID ALL WATER-COVERED ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPEATING...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR RENO COUNTY UNTIL 200 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3815 9772 3776 9772 3777 9844 3814 9845 /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 55 min |
| Aug 12, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 84 min |
| Aug 12, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 67 min |
| Aug 12, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 83 min |
| Aug 12, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 56 min |
| Aug 13, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 84 min |
| Aug 13, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 5 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.