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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 3, 2002, 11:03 PM CDT for 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
- Oct 3, 2002, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 040403 FFWICT KSC173-040700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1102 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 1058 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE RAIN SHOULD END OVER THE NEXT HOUR, EXCESSIVE RUN OFF WILL STILL CAUSE FLOODING. THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. 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. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3788 9715 3750 9715 3750 9763 3788 9764 /FRANK NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 58 min |
| Oct 3, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 54 min |
| Oct 3, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 66 min |
| Oct 3, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| Oct 3, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 41 min |
| Oct 3, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 51 min |
| Oct 3, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 4 hr |
| Oct 4, 1:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Oct 4, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 48 min |
| Oct 4, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 50 min |
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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.