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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS

May 19, 2011Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2011, 6:18 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr. 4 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: May 19, 2011, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2011, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 19, 6:47 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	5 S Luray, KS	ROAD WAS PARTIALLY WASHED OUT A QUARTER MILE EAST OF 194TH STREET AND BEATTY.
May 19, 7:05 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 3.25	Sylvan Grove, KS	RAIN FELL IN A TWO HOUR WINDOW FROM 430 PM CDT TO 630 PM CDT
May 19, 7:30 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 3.62	6 N Dorrance, KS
May 19, 11:45 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 6.56	6 N Sylvan Grove, KS

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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 1795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 370 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.4
Supercell composite: 15.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

279 
WGUS53 KICT 192318
FFWICT
KSC105-167-200515-
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/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
618 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT.

* AT 608 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED FROM A THUNDERSTORM
  OVER THE WARNED AREA.

  VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS OCCURRED FROM NEAR ASH GROVE TO BUNKER HILL. 
AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES HAS LIKELY OCCURRED.  SPOTTER AND LAW 
ENFORCEMENT REPORTS WATER FLOWING OVER SEVERAL ROADS...INCLUDING 
HIGHWAY 181 SOUTH OF ASH GROVE AND IN LUCAS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS 
POSSIBLE THROUGH 10 PM. 

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  ASH GROVE...BARNARD...BUNKER HILL...DORRANCE...LUCAS...LURAY...
  SYLVAN GROVE...WILSON LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...
EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.

&&

LAT...LON 3923 9794 3922 9793 3917 9792 3869 9882
      3913 9875 3914 9872 3914 9850 3922 9850
      3923 9848

$$

HOWERTON

1 follow-up statement

734 
WGUS73 KICT 200057
FFSICT

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
757 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

KSC105-167-200515-
/O.CON.KICT.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110520T0515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RUSSELL KS-LINCOLN KS-
757 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN AND EASTERN RUSSELL COUNTIES...

AT 750 PM CDT...WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER SEVERAL ROADS IN THE 
WARNED AREA.  BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN MEASURED.  THE 
HEAVIEST RAIN OCCURRED FROM BUNKER HILL TO JUST SOUTH OF ASH GROVE. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...
EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER
GROUND.

IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.

&&

LAT...LON 3923 9794 3922 9793 3917 9792 3869 9882
      3913 9875 3914 9872 3914 9850 3922 9850
      3923 9848

$$

HOWERTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	44 min
May 19, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	59 min
May 19, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	32 min
May 19, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	43 min
May 19, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	30 min
May 19, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	54 min
May 19, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	34 min
May 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Russell	37 min
May 19, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	33 min
May 19, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	26 min
May 19, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice	40 min
May 19, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	62 min
May 19, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	18 min

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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.