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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2002, 3:59 AM CDT for Wilson 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
- May 24, 2002, 3:59 AM CDT (08:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2002, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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, 9.0 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 240901 FFWICT KSC205-241500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 359 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 AM CDT * AT 351 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. RADAR ALSO INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... NEW ALBANY...NEODESHA...FREDONIA...COYVILLE...BUXTON 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. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WILSON COUNTY UNTIL 1000 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3766 9555 3740 9560 3739 9595 3769 9594 /OMITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 4 hr |
| May 24, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 4 hr |
| May 24, 2:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| May 24, 3:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 4 hr |
| May 24, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 6 hr |
| May 24, 4:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 5 hr |
| May 24, 5:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 5 hr |
| May 24, 6:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Allen | 4 hr |
| May 24, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 38 min |
| May 24, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 24, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 56 min |
| May 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 53 min |
| May 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| May 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
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.