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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS

September 11, 2003Butler County, Kansas

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.

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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2003-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 145 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 12:00Z on 2003-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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

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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 

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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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln58 min
Sep 10, 10:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTLincoln6 hr
Sep 11, 4:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick6 hr
Sep 11, 7:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler6 hr
Sep 11, 10:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick2 hr

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.