Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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
- Jun 22, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Johnson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KEAX 222100 FFWEAX KSC091-230000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 355 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 350 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...OLATHE...STANLEY...SHAWNEE...PRAIRIE VILLAGE...OVERLAND PARK...MISSION...MERRIAM...LENEXA...LEAWOOD...GARDNER...ROELAND PARK AND EDGERTON KS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO TWO INCHES IN AN HOUR OVER NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IS POSSIBLE. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS...INDIAN CREEK AND CAMP CREEK. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3905 9461 3874 9463 3874 9503 3898 9505 $$ GA
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KEAX 222112 FFSEAX KSC091-230000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 412 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS... AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN...FROM NEAR OLATHE TO OVERLAND PARK. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...OLATHE...STANLEY...SHAWNEE...PRAIRIE VILLAGE...OVERLAND PARK...MISSION...MERRIAM...LENEXA...LEAWOOD...GARDNER...ROELAND PARK AND EDGERTON KS. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES MAY FALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS...INDIAN CREEK...MILL CREEK...CEDAR CREEK AND CAMP CREEK. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SO THAT THEY MAY TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO CLOSE FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON LAT LONG 3905 9461 3874 9463 3874 9503 3898 9505 $$ GA
000
WGUS73 KEAX 222359
FFSEAX
KSC091-230015-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
659 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR JOHNSON COUNTY HAS
BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...
EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT.
LAT...LON 3904 9465 3874 9461 3873 9474 3874 9507
3897 9507 3902 9481
$$
LVQThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 67 min |
| Jun 22, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 82 min |
| Jun 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.