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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS

May 25, 20084 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2008, 6:12 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report 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: May 25, 2008, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2008, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
May 25, 7:10 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	2 Sw Milberger, KS	SOUTH COUNTY ROAD IS UNDERWATER. SEVERAL AREAS OF LOCALIZED FLOODING IN THE COUNTY.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this flash flood warning; the first came 58 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -263 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KICT 252312
FFWICT
KSC009-053-105-167-260315-
/O.NEW.KICT.FF.W.0006.080525T2312Z-080526T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
612 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
  NORTHWESTERN BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
  NORTHWESTERN ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
  RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.

* AT 608 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN 
ACROSS THE AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS   OF 2 TO 3 
INCHES POSSIBLE.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  BARNARD...BEVERLY...BUNKER HILL...DORRANCE...GALATIA...GORHAM...
  LINCOLN...LUCAS...MILBERGER...RUSSELL...RUSSELL AIRPORT...SUSANK...
  SYLVAN GROVE...WESTFALL...WILSON...WILSON LAKE.

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.

LAT...LON 3921 9791 3887 9793 3854 9903 3895 9904
      3922 9821 3922 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 180DEG 0KT 3869 9891

$$

KRC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KICT 260314
FFSICT

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1013 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

KSC009-053-105-167-260323-
/O.EXP.KICT.FF.W.0006.000000T0000Z-080526T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LINCOLN KS-RUSSELL KS-ELLSWORTH KS-BARTON KS-
1013 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 1015 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN BARTON...NORTHWESTERN ELLSWORTH...RUSSELL AND LINCOLN 
COUNTIES...AND WILL LIKELY BE REPLACED WITH AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING...

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE DOWNGRADED TO AN AREAL FLOOD 
WARNING. 

LAT...LON 3921 9791 3887 9793 3854 9903 3895 9904
      3922 9821 3922 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 0313Z 180DEG 0KT 3869 9891

$$

KLEINSASSER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 25, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
345 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

.DISCUSSION...

.SYNOPSIS...
CONVECTIVELY ACTIVE PERIOD CONTINUES THRU TUE NIGHT AS MID-UPR LOW...
DRIFTING E OVER SRN ONTARIO...DRAGS COLD FRONT S/SE INTO C KS TONIGHT &
MON. SUCH MOVEMENT OF THE MID-UPR LOW THRU TUE WILL INDUCE DECELERATION
OF THE FRONT WITH BOUNDARY LIKELY SETTING UP CAMP IN W-E MANNER THROUGH
THE HEART OF KICT COUNTRY. WITH HIGH OCTANE SFC-850MB FUEL CONTINUING TO
MIGRATE N FROM SRN PLAINS...NUMEROUS (+)TSRA...POSSIBLY SEVERE...TO PUT
DAMPER ON REMAINDER OF MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY...ESPECIALLY IN C KS WHERE
FLOODING RAINS ARE LIKELY TONIGHT.

TONIGHT-TUE NIGHT:
PER SYNOPSIS HAVE GONE NEARLY FULL-THROTTLE ON POPS NEARLY ALL AREAS
TONIGHT...WITH FOCUS ON C KS THRU 12 MID-NIGHT WITH AXIS OF HIGHEST
POPS GRADUALLY SHIFTING SE OVER REMAINDER OF KICT COUTNRY AS MASSIVE MCS
VENTURES OVER THESE LATTER AREAS THEREAFTER. WITH AFORE-MENTIONED FRONT
DECELERATING PROLONGED PERIODS OF +RA LIKELY OVER ESPECIALLY C KS WHERE
ECHO-TRAINING LIKELY...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. WITH 1 & 3-HOUR FFGS IN
1.5-2.5 INCH RANGE HAVE ISSUED FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF C KS FOR TONIGHT
THATLL INCLUDE MARION & CHASE COUNTIES. DEEP-LAYER SHEAR COUPLED WITH
VERY UNSTABLE() AIRMASS TO OBVIOUSLY PROMOTE SUPER-CELLULAR CONVECTION
THROUGH TUE NIGHT WITH GREATEST SEVERE POTENTIAL GRADUALLY SHIFTING SE
OVER SC & SE KS TUE AFTERNOON & EVENING.

MID-WEEK:
NO CHANGES TO INHERITED FORECAST WITH COOLER TEMPS SPREADING S ACROSS
PRIMARILY C KS TUE & WED.

NEXT WEEKEND:
ATMOSPHERE SHOULD BE PRIMED & READY FOR MORE TSRA FRI NIGHT AS POTENT
MID-UPR LOW SPRINTS E/SE ACROSS NRN PLAINS...SWEEPING COLD FRONT SE OVER
KS. WITH MID-UPR LOW FILLING AS IT ASSUMES DUE E TRACK ACROSS GREAT
LAKES LATE SAT NIGHT/EARLY SUN...FRONT SHOULD DECELERATE & PERHAPS EVEN
STALL NEAR RED RIVER AROUND THIS SAME TIME...THEREBY SHUNTING BEST TSRA
POTENTIAL ACROSS SRN KS SAT NIGHT.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
WICHITA-KICT    71  89  68  77 /  70  30  60  40
HUTCHINSON      69  88  66  75 /  70  30  80  40
NEWTON          70  87  67  76 /  80  40  70  40
ELDORADO        71  87  69  78 /  80  30  60  40
WINFIELD-KWLD   72  89  69  80 /  70  30  50  40
RUSSELL         67  86  57  70 /  60  30  80  40
GREAT BEND      67  87  60  72 /  60  30  80  40
SALINA          68  85  62  72 /  80  40  80  40
MCPHERSON       69  87  65  74 /  80  40  80  40
COFFEYVILLE     73  87  69  83 /  60  30  30  50
CHANUTE         72  85  69  81 /  70  30  50  50
IOLA            72  85  69  80 /  80  30  50  50
PARSONS-KPPF    73  86  69  82 /  70  20  40  50

&&

.ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLOOD WATCH FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY MORNING
FOR KSZ032-033-047>053.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 4:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
453 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-262200-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
453 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TENNISBALL SIZED HAIL
DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 70 MPH AND A FEW TORNADOES WILL OCCUR OVER ALL
OF CENTRAL KANSAS. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SUCH SEVERE WEATHER WILL
OCCUR GENERALLY ALONG...AND NORTHWEST...OF A LINE FROM LYONS TO NEAR
SALINA. IN ADDITION...FLOOD PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL ALSO
OCCUR. PLEASE REFER TO THE FLOOD WATCH FOR DETAILS.

LATER TONIGHT...A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS...LIKELY SEVERE...WILL
SPREAD EAST SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA WITH DAMAGING
WINDS AROUND 70 MPH THE PRIMARY THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE REGION FROM
MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS TRAVERSING
GENERALLY THE SAME AREAS...THE VERY HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
ACTIVITY MAY CAUSE FURTHER FLOODING. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR STRONG
TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST KANSAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ONE IS URGED TO LISTEN FOR ANY FURTHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS ISSUED BY
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT
(LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

ES

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 5:24 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
524 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0523 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     1 NW GALATIA            38.65N 98.97W
05/25/2008                   BARTON             KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

ADK

Local storm report, May 25, 5:27 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
527 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0525 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     2 NW GALATIA            38.66N 98.98W
05/25/2008                   BARTON             KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FUNNEL WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE GROUND.

&&

CDB

Local storm report, May 25, 5:46 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
546 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0522 PM     TORNADO          2 N GALATIA             38.67N 98.96W
05/25/2008                   BARTON             KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

REC

Local storm report, May 25, 5:54 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
554 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0553 PM     HAIL             8 S GORHAM              38.77N 99.01W
05/25/2008  E1.00 INCH       RUSSELL            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            ALSO REPORTED 50 MPH WINDS.

&&

CDB

Special weather statement, May 25, 5:59 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
559 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

KSZ033-260000-
LINCOLN-
559 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY...

AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SYLVAN GROVE...OR 11 MILES WEST OF
LINCOLN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

KRC

Local storm report, May 25, 6:00 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
600 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0556 PM     TORNADO          1 N GALATIA             38.66N 98.96W
05/25/2008                   BARTON             KS   STORM CHASER

&&

REC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	47 min
May 24, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	51 min
May 24, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	47 min
May 24, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	50 min
May 24, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	63 min
May 25, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	48 min
May 25, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	59 min
May 25, 2:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	4 hr
May 25, 4:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	6 hr
May 25, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	51 min
May 25, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	48 min
May 25, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	22 min
May 25, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	63 min
May 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	18 min
May 25, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	55 min
May 25, 4:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	5 hr
May 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	Barton, Chase, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Marion and 3 more	11 hr
May 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	50 min
May 25, 4:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	5 hr
May 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	24 min
May 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	23 min
May 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	27 min
May 25, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	55 min
May 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	4 hr
May 25, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	59 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	32 min
May 25, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	66 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	38 min
May 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	52 min
May 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	57 min
May 25, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	43 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2008 Every flash flood warning in 2008

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.