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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Wichita, KS

May 24, 2002Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2002, 3:35 AM CDT for Chautauqua 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
May 24, 2002, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2002, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chautauqua County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2002-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2002-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 175 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KICT 240838
FFWICT
KSC019-241230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
335 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 AM CDT

* AT 331 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS   
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...ESPECIALLY 
ACROSS THAT PART OF THE COUNTY ALONG...AND NORTHWEST...OF A LINE FROM
CEDAR VALE...TO SEDAN...TO HALE. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES 
OF RAIN HAVE OCCURRED ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF CHAUTAUQUA 
COUNTY...WITH THE GREATER AMOUNTS IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER NEAR THE 
ELK COUNTY LINE.

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. NEVER 
ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS COVERED BY WATER....ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.

REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CHAUTAUQUA
COUNTY UNTIL 730 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3728 9601 3701 9601 3700 9650 3729 9649

/ES

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 12:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley4 hr
May 24, 2:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTElk, Greenwood4 hr
May 24, 2:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick4 hr
May 24, 3:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTWilson6 hr
May 24, 4:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTLabette, Montgomery, Neosho6 hr
May 24, 4:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley5 hr
May 24, 5:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTElk, Greenwood5 hr
May 24, 6:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTAllen4 hr
May 24, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner38 min
May 24, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley62 min
May 24, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion56 min
May 24, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler53 min
May 24, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood61 min
May 24, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner55 min
May 24, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley62 min
May 24, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler64 min

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.