Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2004, 11:26 AM CDT for Woodson 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
- Jul 8, 2004, 11:26 AM CDT (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2526 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 081629 FFWICT KSC207-082230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1126 AM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WOODSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 1124 AM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS WERE CLOSED DUE HIGH WATER WEST OF YATES CENTER. WATER WAS REPORTED OVER US HIGHWAY 54...WEST OF YATES CENTER. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. THIS REPLACES THE COUNTYWIDE FLOOD WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WOODSON COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3802 9573 3776 9573 3776 9595 3802 9595 $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KICT 081653 FFSICT KSC207-082230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1150 AM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WOODSON COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL HAD FALLEN OVER WESTERN WOODSON COUNTY. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BATESVILLE. AT 1150 AM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT WATER HAD RECEDED FROM US HIGHWAY 54 AT BATESVILLE. BUT NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS IN WESTERN WOODSON COUNTY REMAIN CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES, INCLUDING SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3803 9577 3775 9575 3775 9595 3802 9594 $$ /KETCHAM NNNN
000 WGUS73 KICT 082046 FFSICT KSC207-082115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 345 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WOODSON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATED THAT HIGH WATER HAS RECEDED AND MOST COUNTY ROADS WERE OPEN. 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. LAT...LON 3800 9558 3779 9558 3778 9589 3800 9590 $$ /KLEINSASSER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 12:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.