Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2002, 4:06 AM CDT for Labette County, Montgomery County, Neosho 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, 4:06 AM CDT (09:06 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
Counties Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KICT 240907
FFWICT
KSC099-125-133-241500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
406 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 1000 AM CDT
* AT 401 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR.
THIS INTENSITY OF RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR
DRAINAGE.
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 NEOSHO...
MONTGOMERY AND LABETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM CDT.
LAT...LON 3757 9520 3700 9546 3700 9595 3737 9593
3736 9550 3764 9551
/OMITT
NNNNThe 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, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 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 |
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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.