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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
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
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.
- 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 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 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, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 6 hr |
| May 24, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 6 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.