Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 1, 2003, 2:14 AM CDT for Chautauqua 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 1, 2003, 2:14 AM CDT (07:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chautauqua County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:14 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 3988 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 010717 FFWICT KSC019-011215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 214 AM CDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 715 AM CDT * AT 209 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 4 INCHES, WITH THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED TO PERSIST FOR A COUPLE OF MORE HOURS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. 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. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY UNTIL 715 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3725 9609 3702 9609 3703 9648 3726 9647 $$ /DARMOFAL NNNN
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KICT 010909 FFSICT KSC019-011200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 407 AM CDT THU MAY 1 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MONTGOMERY AND CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES UNTIL 715 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COMING TO AN END ACROSS THE COUNTY. HOWEVER, RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 4 TO AS MUCH AS 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL SINCE 6 PM LAST EVENING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT...WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING...OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS COVERED BY WATER. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /OMITT NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 010910 CCA FFSICT KSC019-011200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT CORRECTION TO REMOVE MONTGOMERY COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 407 AM CDT THU MAY 1 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY UNTIL 715 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COMING TO AN END ACROSS THE COUNTY. HOWEVER, RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 4 TO AS MUCH AS 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL SINCE 6 PM LAST EVENING. 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. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /OMITT NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 011143 FFSICT KSC019-011215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 642 AM CDT THU MAY 1 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE... BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELLED. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THIS MORNING SINCE SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY REMAIN OUT OF THEIR BANKS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /OMITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 49 min |
| May 1, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 55 min |
| May 1, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 44 min |
| May 1, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 67 min |
| May 1, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 58 min |
| May 1, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 43 min |
| May 1, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 42 min |
| May 1, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 40 min |
| May 1, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 50 min |
| May 1, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 43 min |
| May 1, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 62 min |
| May 1, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 57 min |
| May 1, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 63 min |
| May 1, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.