Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2005, 6:51 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2005, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2005, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:15 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.5 | 4 N Hunter, KS | HEAVY RAIN STILL FALLING |
| Aug 22, 8:33 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 4 | Hunter, KS | TWO AREAS OF HIGHWAY 181 NEAR HUNTER COVERED BY WATER |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KGID 222354
FFWGID
KSC123-230545-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
651 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
* AT 650 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN OVER HUNTER...OR ABOUT 46 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA.
THE STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BACON CREEK...
HUNTER...
VICTOR...
TIPTON...
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.
OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN
MITCHELL COUNTY FROM 5 PM UNTIL 645 PM. ANOTHER INCH TO TWO INCHES
OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 8 PM. PEOPLE NEAR BACON CREEK AND THE
CITY OF HUNTER SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT TO RISING WATER. RAIN SHOULD
TAPER OFF OR END BY 8 PM. HOWEVER...FLASH FLOODING IS STILL POSSIBLE
WELL AFTERWARDS.
LAT...LON 3922 9848 3923 9830 3929 9821 3946 9817
3945 9834 3941 9848
$$
HEINLEIN2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KGID 230149
FFSGID
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
848 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2005
KSC123-230545-
MITCHELL KS-
848 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
MITCHELL COUNTY...
AT 846 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT
HIGHWAY 181 IN HUNTER WAS UNDER WATER IN TWO LOCATIONS DUE TO RECENT
HEAVY RAIN.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HUNTER AND
ALONG BACON CREEK...NEAR HUNTER.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
HASTINGS.
LAT...LON 3922 9848 3923 9830 3929 9821 3946 9817
3945 9834 3941 9848
$$
HEINLEIN000
WGUS73 KGID 230324
FFSGID
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1023 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2005
KSC123-230333-
MITCHELL KS-
1023 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
HEAVY RAINFALL HAD ENDED IN MITCHELL COUNTY...AND NO ADDITIONAL
FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3922 9848 3923 9830 3929 9821 3946 9817
3945 9834 3941 9848
$$
FAY/BUFFALONearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.