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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS

October 10, 2014Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 10, 2014, 2:56 AM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 10 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: Oct 10, 2014, 2:56 AM CDT (07:56 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Labette County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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
Oct 10, 7:00 AM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 3.75	Bartlett, KS

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

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

070 
WGUS53 KICT 100756
FFWICT
KSC099-101300-
/O.NEW.KICT.FF.W.0009.141010T0756Z-141010T1300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
256 AM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT.

* AT 248 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORMS TRAINING OVER THE WARNED AREA.

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN 
ACROSS THE AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES 
POSSIBLE. 

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  BARTLETT...CHETOPA.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

&&

LAT...LON 3700 9550 3717 9508 3701 9507

$$

BILLINGS WRIGHT

1 follow-up statement

230 
WGUS53 KICT 101203
FFWICT
KSC099-101800-
/O.EXT.KICT.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-141010T1800Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
703 AM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LABETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT.

* AT 655 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN 
ACROSS THE AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES 
POSSIBLE.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  BARTLETT...CHETOPA.

AT 655 AM CDT...MAJOR COUNTY ROADS ARE IMPASSIBLE NEAR BARTLETT. 

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.

&&

LAT...LON 3700 9550 3717 9508 3701 9507

$$
BILLINGS WRIGHT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 9:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	5 hr
Oct 9, 10:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery	14 hr
Oct 10, 4:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	6 hr
Oct 10, 5:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	6 hr
Oct 10, 12:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	6 hr
Oct 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.