Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2003, 12:55 PM CDT for Butler 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
- Sep 11, 2003, 12:55 PM CDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Butler County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 111754 FFWICT KSC015-112100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1255 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 1245 PM CDT...BUTLER COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED CONTINUED FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN PARTS OF BUTLER COUNTY. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODED ROADWAYS STILL EXISTED BETWEEN EL DORADO AND AUGUSTA EVEN THOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOWED AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE AREA, SO FLOOD WATERS WILL BE SLOW TO SUBSIDE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT... OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS... SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3806 9667 3762 9666 3760 9711 3806 9714 $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KICT 111825 FFSICT KSC015-112100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 120 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING EAST OUT OF BUTLER COUNTY BUT FLOODING WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. AT 120 PM CDT BUTLER COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THE BRIDGE OVER THE WALNUT RIVER AT HIGHWAY 77 AND A QUARTER MILE NORTH OF 30TH WAS SUBMERGED BY HIGH WATER. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 112038 FFSICT KSC015-112130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 336 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BUTLER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... REPORTS FROM BUTLER COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INDICATED THAT FLOOD WATERS HAVE RECEDED IN MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS BUTLER COUNTY 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. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Sep 10, 10:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 4:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 7:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 10:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 2 hr |
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.