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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 9, 2003, 12:01 AM CDT for Greenwood 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
- Oct 9, 2003, 12:01 AM CDT (05:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 090503 FFWICT KSC073-091000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1201 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 500 AM CDT * AT 1158 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FALLING AT THE RATE OF BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES PER HOUR. THE RAINS ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE INTENSITY OF THE RAINS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING. EXPECT 2 TO AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES OF RAIN TO FALL THROUGH 3 AM. 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 GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 500 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3806 9599 3769 9600 3769 9648 3807 9648 $$ /OMITT NNNN
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KICT 090549 FFSICT KSC073-090945- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1246 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 500 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS ACROSS ALL OF GREENWOOD COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE FALLING ACROSS SOUTHWEST GREENWOOD COUNTY, SOUTHWEST OF EUREKA. RAINFALL RATES OF 2-3 INCHES PER HOUR WILL OCCUR. FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT...WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /OMITT NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 090946 FFSICT KSC073-091015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 444 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 443 AM...RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED NO PROBLEMS DUE TO HIGH WATER DURING THE NIGHT. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /DARMOFAL 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, 10:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 4 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
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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.