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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2011, 9:53 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 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
- Jun 2, 2011, 9:53 AM CDT (14:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2011, 2:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:50 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Barnard, KS | MOST ROADS IN AND OUT OF BARNARD ARE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER FROM THE SALT CREEK. ADDITIONALLY...NUMEROUS SECONDARY ROADS COUNTYWIDE ARE FLOODED. |
| Jun 2, 2:30 PM CDT | FLOOD | 3 Se Lincoln, KS | FLOOD WATERS FROM THE SALINE RIVER COVER PARTS OF 220TH ROAD AND KALE LANE NEAR THE RIVER. |
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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
895 WGUS53 KICT 021453 FFWICT KSC105-022100- /O.NEW.KICT.FF.W.0008.110602T1453Z-110602T2100Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 953 AM CDT THU JUN 2 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 400 PM CDT THURSDAY. * AT 930 AM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONTINUED TO INDICATE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY. SEVERAL MAIN ROADS ARE CLOSED. THE SALINE RIVER...WHICH IS ALREADY PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WILL CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE AFTERNOON. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE... ASH GROVE...BARNARD...BEVERLY...LINCOLN...SYLVAN GROVE...WESTFALL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS IS A DANGEROUS FLOODING SITUATION...WITH MANY AREAS IMPASSABLE DUE TO HIGH FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. EVEN WATER ONLY LITTLE MORE THAN A FOOT DEEP CAN SWEEP YOUR CAR OFF THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 3922 9793 3888 9793 3887 9848 3922 9849 $$ COOK
1 follow-up statement
172 WGUS73 KICT 021940 FFSICT FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 240 PM CDT THU JUN 2 2011 KSC105-021945- /O.CAN.KICT.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-110602T2100Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LINCOLN KS- 240 PM CDT THU JUN 2 2011 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LINCOLN COUNTY WILL BE REPLACED WITH AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM PREVIOUS HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA...ENDING THE FLASH FLOODING THREAT. HOWEVER...STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA CONTINUE TO RUN VERY HIGH...SO FLOODING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS REMAINS LIKELY. ADDITIONALLY...NUMEROUS ROADS ACROSS THE COUNTY REMAIN FLOODED. CONSEQUENTLY...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE REPLACED WITH AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING SHORTLY. LAT...LON 3922 9793 3888 9793 3887 9848 3922 9849 $$ KLEINSASSER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 8:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 9 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 10:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 12 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 10:53 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 4 days |
| Jun 1, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 10 hr |
| Jun 1, 11:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion, Saline | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 12:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 67 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more | 16 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 11 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 30 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 6 hr |
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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.