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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2003Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2003, 11:05 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 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
Jun 5, 2003, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KICT 060405
FFWICT
KSC191-061000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1105 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 1058 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY   
RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING ACROSS EASTERN SUMNER COUNTY. ALTHOUGH 
RAINFALL RATES WERE DECREASING, EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE FOR 
MOST OF THE NIGHT.

AT 1100 PM CDT, SUMNER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT IN WELLINGTON, 
FAIR STREET WAS CLOSED TO TRAFFIC BETWEEN LINCOLN AND 1ST STREETS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS 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.

TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES, INCLUDING
SUVS AND PICKUPS.

REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY
UNTIL 500 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3744 9717 3702 9716 3702 9776 3744 9777

$$

/ES

NNNN
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS73 KICT 060522
FFSICT
KSC191-061000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1219 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 500 AM
CDT...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SHOWER AND 
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. BUT RUNOFF FROM 
EARLIER RAINS MAY STILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS.

AT AROUND MIDNIGHT, SUMNER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT IN 
WELLINGTON, FAIR STREET WAS CLOSED TO TRAFFIC BETWEEN LINCOLN AND 
1ST STREETS.

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.

$$

/LAWSON
000 
WGUS73 KICT 060805
FFSICT
KSC191-061000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
304 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SUMNER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...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.

$$

/LAWSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCowley6 hr
Jun 5, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua58 min

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.