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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 9, 2003, 1:17 AM CDT for Cowley 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, 1:17 AM CDT (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2003, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 225 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 090618 FFWICT KSC035-091115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 117 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 615 AM CDT * AT 110 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES PER HOUR. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE COUNTY. THIS INTENSITY OF RAIN WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. ALL STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. 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 COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 615 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3738 9656 3688 9657 3699 9709 3730 9709 $$ /OMITT NNNN
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KICT 090656 FFSICT KSC035-091130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 153 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 615 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO FALL AT THE RATE OF NEARLY 2 INCHES PER HOUR, MAINLY NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. FLOODING IS LIKELY, ESPECIALLY NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT...WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /OMITT NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 090851 FFSICT KSC035-091115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 348 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 615 AM CDT... AT 348 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED NO PROBLEMS DUE TO HIGH WATER ACROSS THE COUNTY. HOWEVER...EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER STORMS COULD STILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...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. $$ KED NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 091036 FFSICT KSC035-091100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 534 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR COWLEY COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 534 AM...RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED NO PROBLEMS DUE TO HIGH WATER AND NO ADDITIONAL RAIN IS EXPECTED TODAY. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELLED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /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, 12:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 5 hr |
| Oct 9, 1:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 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.