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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Wichita, KS

May 24, 2002Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2002, 4:16 AM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 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, 4:16 AM CDT (09:16 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2002, 9:15 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 240920
FFWICT
KSC015-035-241415-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 AM CDT

* AT 411 AM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLOODING 
ACROSS SOUTHERN BUTLER AND NORTHERN COWLEY COUNTIES. A TRAINED 
SPOTTER REPORTED BETWEEN 6 AND 7 INCHES OF RAIN NEAR ATLANTA IN 
NORTHERN COWLEY COUNTY AT 330 AM CDT.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR 
DRAINAGE. THE DANGER FROM THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN WILL PERSIST FOR THE 
NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS RUNOFF CONTINUES TO CAUSE FLOODING.

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 BUTLER AND
COWLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 915 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3764 9653 3726 9653 3725 9712 3763 9713

/OMITT

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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, 3:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua4 hr
May 24, 3:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTWilson6 hr
May 24, 4:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTLabette, Montgomery, Neosho6 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.