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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2003, 4:55 AM CDT for Harvey County, Sedgwick 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
- Sep 11, 2003, 4:55 AM CDT (09:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2003, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harvey County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 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 110958 FFWICT KSC079-173-111600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 455 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 AM CDT * AT 450 AM CDT...K F D I REPORTED PATCHY FLOODING ALONG BROADWAY EXTENDING FROM 53RD STREET NORTH TO 101ST STREET NORTH WHICH WOULD BE CLOSE TO THE SEDGWICK HARVEY COUNTY LINE. WITH THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE NORTH AROUND 40 MPH ACROSS THE SAME AREA IN AN ASSEMBLY LINE MANNER, EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING ACROSS SEDGWICK AND HARVEY COUNTIES. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING...OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS COVERED BY WATER A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT...OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS...SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARVEY AND SEDGWICK COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 AM CDT. THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING REPLACES THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY AT 405 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3815 9719 3748 9720 3747 9767 3815 9769 $$ /ES NNNN
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KICT 111052 FFSICT KSC079-173-111600- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 552 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SEDGWICK AND HARVEY COUNTIES UNTIL 11 AM. AT 540 AM, KFDI RADIO REPORTED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF WATER OVER BROADWAY AT 77TH, 93RD AND 101ST STREETS. MORE HEAVY RAIN WILL BE MOVING ACROSS BOTH WICHITA AND NEWTON BETWEEN 6 AND 7 AM. STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY IN THE FLOOD PRONE AREAS. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES, INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT... OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS... SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /HOWERTON NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 111443 FFSICT KSC173-111600- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 939 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 1100 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAINFALL HAD FALLEN OVER EASTERN SECTIONS OF SEDGWICK COUNTY IN THE LAST HOUR. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE...BEL AIRE...CLEARWATER...COLWICH...DERBY AND EAST WICHITA. AT 939 AM CDT AN OFF DUTY WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED 13TH AND WEST WAS BARRICADED IN WICHITA BECAUSE OF HIGH WATER. WATER WAS ALSO OVER THE ROADS IN WICHITA AT 2ND AND WEST AND 31ST AND SENECA. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES, INCLUDING CARS AND PICKUPS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 111629 FFSICT KSC079-111730- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1129 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HARVEY COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE... BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Sep 10, 10:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 7:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 10:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 3 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.