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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2003, 10:58 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 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, 10:58 AM CDT (15:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:58 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 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 111604 FFWICT KSC173-111800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1058 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1058 AM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING OVER ROADWAYS AT NUMEROUS LOCATIONS IN THE CITY OF WICHITA, WITH ROADS BARRICADED. SOME LOCATIONS STILL CLOSED TO DUE TO HIGH WATER INCLUDE, 31ST AND SENACA AND 13TH AND WEST. ALSO WATER WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROAD AT NORTH 25TH STREET NEAR CLOUD ELEMENTARY. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES, INCLUDING CARS AND TRUCKS. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 100 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3789 9717 3751 9717 3751 9765 3789 9765 $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KICT 111759 FFSICT KSC173-111900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1259 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE... BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /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, 4:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 7:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 3 hr |
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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.