Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 2004, 12:45 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Elk 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
- Apr 23, 2004, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Elk County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KICT 231747 FFWICT KSC019-049-232345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1245 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 1242 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL RATES ARE NEAR 1.50 INCHES PER HOUR. RAINFALL OF 1 TO 1.50 INCHES HAVE ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING...OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS COVERED BY WATER. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CHAUTAUQUA AND ELK COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3758 9598 3701 9600 3700 9651 3758 9648 $$ /SPURGEON NNNN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KICT 232039 FFSICT KSC019-049-232345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 340 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CHAUTAUQUA AND ELK COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS. NUMEROUS LOW WATER CROSSINGS HAVE BEEN REPORTED UNDER WATER. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL CONTINUE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...ROADS AND AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ /LAWSON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 7:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 7:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 8:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 10:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 10:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 10:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 71 min |
| Apr 23, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 69 min |
| Apr 23, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 12:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 5 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 6:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.