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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 58 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.