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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2003, 10:16 PM CDT for Harvey 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
- Oct 8, 2003, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2003, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harvey County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1022 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KICT 090318
FFWICT
KSC079-090615-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1016 PM CDT WED OCT 8 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 115 AM CDT
* AT 1010 PM CDT...PUBLIC AND LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS WIDESPREAD
SERIOUS FLOODING ACROSS MUCH OF HARVEY COUNTY. NUMEROUS STALLED CAR
REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM HARVEY COUNTY. RAINFALL WILL END
THROUGH MIDNIGHT, HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM STORM TOTALS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES
SINCE NOON TODAY WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOODING.
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.
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 HARVEY COUNTY
UNTIL 115 AM CDT.
LAT...LON 3800 9759 3793 9766 3793 9718 3811 9718
3811 9763
$$
/OMITT
NNNN1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KICT 090510 FFSICT KSC079-090615- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1208 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HARVEY COUNTY UNTIL 115 AM CDT... AT 1205 AM...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF COUNTY ROADS CONTINUES. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WATER OVER ROADS AND FLOODED PROPERTY HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. HOWEVER, RADAR INDICATES THAT THE RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS HARVEY COUNTY. EVEN SO, THE THREAT FOR FLOODING WILL PERSIST FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AS RUNOFF PERSISTS. DO NOT DRIVE WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 114 min |
| Oct 8, 8:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 118 min |
| Oct 8, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 8:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 83 min |
| Oct 8, 9:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 4 hr |
| Oct 8, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 10:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 4 hr |
| Oct 9, 12:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 5 hr |
| Oct 9, 1:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 5 hr |
| Oct 9, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 5 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.