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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 3, 2002, 11:25 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2002, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 040425
FFWICT
KSC191-040830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1125 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SUMNER COUNTY IN KANSAS
* UNTIL 330 AM CDT
* AT 1123 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL EXIT THE COUNTY OVER THE NEXT
HOUR. HOWEVER, EXCESSIVE RUN OFF COMBINED WITH YESTERDAYS HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING.
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.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY
UNTIL 330 AM CDT.
LAT...LON 3752 9719 3703 9722 3700 9772 3742 9772
3747 9722
/FRANK
NNNNThe 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, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| 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 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.